tuna wranglers ( 2007 ) is a documentary film produced by the makers of deadliest catch .

it follows the exploits of the southern bluefin tuna industry in south australia as it captures wild fish and transports them to grow-out pens where the fish are fattened up for sale to the japanese market .

it features footage of fishermen diving into tuna pens to wrestle sharks in order to protect their multimillion-dollar stock .

the film was directed and produced by mark strickson for television and has also been released on dvd in several regions .

critics of the film noted the omission of the southern bluefin tuna 's conservation status and the incongruous casting of an american narrator given the exclusively australian cast and story .

the film was produced by nhnz for the discovery channel .

a year after its release , the film was acknowledged by the southern bluefin tuna industry as having helped raise its public profile and boosted related tourism activity in the town of port lincoln .

tuna wranglers

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interest in the tuna industry has been spiked , says mr waller , by two documentaries tuna cowboys and tuna wranglers , and the successes of tony santic and that other famous tuna fisherman , olympic gold - medal - winning weightlifter dean lukin .
at the airport , a life - size tuna greets arrivals , and during the annual tunarama festival , spectators watch the “world famous” tuna toss competition . documentaries such as tuna cowboys and tuna wranglers have profiled the wealthy anglers who call port lincoln home .
of tuna stocks , which is as good a reason to go light on tuna as any mercury content .
most of the sharks were provided by professional wranglers , but sometimes a few wild ones were attracted by the bait . blanchard ryan jokingly referred to them as
the non - union sharks .
all right guys . where are they ? i know there are plenty of experts out there . have they came and went ? passed us by ? depleted by the tuna wranglers ? weather related ? is it gonna happen this year ? i ' m really just looking for some tuna talk since there are no catch reports to talk about .
however , while tuna aquaculture is touted as an ecologically friendly way to meet the insatiable demands of the japanese sashimi market , there’s evidence that tuna are actually floundering .
tuna , especially bluefin tuna , are scarce . each fish , we ' re told , is worth about us $ 70 , 000 . a full complement of fish can be worth us $ 20 million . most of the tuna is exported to japan .
while it certainly doesn’t have the depth or excitement of the most excellently developed fan favorite , deadliest catch , the first episode of tuna wranglers seems promising in that much like the previously mentioned deadliest catch , it introduces many of us to a part of this world we’re not so familiar with . who would have thought really , that fishing for tuna involved not only the actual tuna fishing vessel , but a floating aquarium that basically heads out to deep waters with the sole purpose of throwing baitfish in tuna infested waters to guide them towards the tuna catching boat . and prior to the baiting and rounding up of tuna , a spotter plane flys out to sea and spots the large shadows that tuna schools create . after the tuna is “wrangled” into their initial netting , yet another vessel is on the scene with a permanent caged nettings that is used to haul in the harvest and house them for several months while they are fattened up .
according to an interview with blanchard ryan , producers chris kentis and laura lau spent nearly half of the budget to get stuart cove and his shark wranglers for two days , and to make sure the two actors would be completely safe around the sharks .
it looks like the blue fin tuna season runs all year , but the purse seine fishery that we witnessed in the new mini series , tuna wranglers , runs from january through march…”the sbt fishing year runs from 1 december to 30 november each year . for the purse seine fishery , fishing for grow out farms occurs from january – march . longlining for sbt occurs primarily in winter months off southern nsw and to a lesser extent off southern wa”
but if i was a tuna , i would try to eat as much mercury as i could . seems like that might be the only way to keep some tuna in the sea .
we know the tuna are in real trouble–worldwide , the bluefin population has plunged more than 90 percent in the last 30 years . just before the november conference on setting tuna quotas happened last year ,
30lb bluefin tuna ' s caught barehanded . if the site of blood is not for you , look away
i saw a tv show about tuna wranglers who catch them small and then grow them in captivity . i wonder if that might be of help in protecting the wild population . also , i am still thinking about your post on using bug meal instead of fish meal to grow fish . it would be great to see that take off to help bring population numbers go back up ! dave briggs : ~ )
a crowd forms a circle in the protected waters of encounter bay to peacefully protest the oceanic victor tuna attraction .
is wrestling sharks in your job profile ? it takes a certain kind of person to willingly jump into a tuna pen 120 miles offshore , wrestle deadly sharks out with their bare hands and live to tell the tale - but for south australia ' s tuna fishermen , it ' s all in a day ' s work . from the makers of deadliest catch comes the hit series profiling australia ? s toughest fishermen : tuna wranglers . the mighty southern ocean has long been a shipping graveyard , with monstrous waves powering across the remote seascape . but each year , the fishermen take up a unique challenge : to spend two months rounding up , caging and dragging home millions of dollars worth of live southern bluefin tuna to fatten up , and sell to the lucrative japanese market .
many of the southern bluefin tuna raised by australia’s aquaculture industry end up at the tsukiji market in tokyo , japan .
so i ' m flipping through the channels and land on the discovery channel . some show called tuna wranglers . i settle in and listen to them describe one of their jobs , you will not believe it . apparently , sharks love to get into tuna nets . the tuna nets are these giant nets that are positioned in the ocean . the nets are static and just sit there for a while , until they fill up with tuna . anyways , how do you think these tuna wranglers get the sharks out ? these crazy - looney - stark - raving - mad people jump into the nets and wrestle the sharks . that ' s right , man vs sharks . the sharks are approximately the same size as the man , give or take a hundred pounds here or there . usually it is two men vs one shark but occassionally it is one on one . these men ( and i thought i was manly ) grab the sharks by the torso , then pull up on their snouts , and manhandle the sharks forcing them out of the nets . i ' m watching these crazies right now . in a word . holy f - ing shit batman ! has anyone seen this show ? what are your thoughts ? mel . . .
instead , the battle over the attraction has exposed a general rift about the much - lauded , and valuable , industry it symbolizes—tuna aquaculture in australia—sparking accusations of governmental kowtowing to the tuna ranchers and doubts about the fishery’s true level of sustainability .
organizer nisa schebella addresses a crowd gathered in victor harbor to protest oceanic victor , a swim - with - tuna attraction .
but hold up . there is a problem . in all this conversation , there has been almost no mention of the current dismal status of tuna stocks , which is as good a reason to go light on tuna as any mercury content . .
whats a tuna ? ? my boat has been pulled , sitting in bishopville all cleaned up ready to go fishin for linesiders . unless someone shouts tuna well stick her back in the big muddy . someone please go 18 for 18 yft already ! bill
the fishing process is fascinating – the ships can be out for weeks at a time . one ship looks for the tuna and baits them ( throws sardines overboard to move the school in the direction desired ) , another deploys the purse seine nets around the school of tuna , and a third boat transfers the tuna from the nets to holding pens , and tows the pens full of live tuna back to port . a spotter plane also looks for tuna sunbathing near the surface – they need the sun to warm them in order to allow them to digest their food as fast as possible . we loved the cgi animations showing the fishing process .
while the frigid bering sea waters is the greatest threat to the crab fishermen we’ve all become acquainted with in the last three years on discovery’s deadliest catch , the tuna wranglers who ply the much warmer ocean waters off the southern australian coast face a danger i have yet to see any commercial fishermen contend with . and that of course , is sharks . it was both shocking to learn and mesmerizing to see that when a shark tears through the massive net containing trapped tuna , a trained fisherman / diver has to actually dive down into the contained tuna area and literally wrestle the shark until said shark decides it’s had enough of this hand to hand combat , and leaves through the same hole it came in . just how much does that position pay ? pretty interesting stuff .
i agree tuna wranglers is a bit of an over the top american documentary , but you should suss out the award - winning kiwi doco made for the national geographic channel , tuna cowboys , as it is far more down to earth . southern bluefin stocks are still depleted in aussie waters , but strict quota levels are seeing them slowly beginning to recover . i ' ve worked as a commercial fisherman , as well as being a recreational angler , and it ' s the latter that needs more regulation because at present there is little information availble on how many sbt are taken by rec anglers . a pdf you might find interesting . urltoken
today , tuna aquaculture is one of australia’s fastest growing sectors ; about 15 tuna ranching companies operate in south australia , bringing in between $ 114 and $ 227 million annually . ( compare that to canada , where the entire country’s commercial tuna industry is only worth $ 17 million . ) pioneers of the ranching method became rich and put port lincoln on the map as a leader in sustainable seafood production .
no cg was used in this movie . director chris kentis fed the sharks tuna to get real feeling of the main characters being in the ocean together with the sharks . as long as they were eating the tuna they didn ' t harm blanchard ryan and daniel travis .
the waters off port lincoln are dotted with roughly 100 pontoons , operated by 12 companies , where tuna are fattened up before they’re harvested .
tuna are unloaded at a wharf in port lincoln , south australia . the town has the highest number of millionaires per capita in the country .
tuna cowboys is an award winning national geographic documentary that ventures into the southern ocean to capture the first ever footage of the southern blue fin tuna muster . produced and directed by mike bhana at natural history new zealand , motion pacific provided topside camera and field director services to the project .
i got a citation yellowfin on sunday , but that was the only one we boated . seems that there are more wahoo out there than tuna
tuna are also notoriously difficult to breed . the young are especially fragile and sensitive to water temperature , currents , and changes in their environment . the ranchers’ reliance on juvenile wild stock means that tuna are possibly being caught before they can reproduce . and although the quota system was developed to ensure the long - term survival of the species , it’s managed by the same industry that profits from it . tuna ranch operators are rarely subject to independent third - party assessments . the result , says university of technology sydney researcher kate barclay , who specializes in the sustainable development of tuna fisheries , is systemic overfishing and false counting .
in the film we get to see marcus stehr , an owner of the stehr group which is one of the major players in australia ' s tuna industry . marcus ' german - born father , hagen stehr , founded the company in 1969 , when tuna was still fairly abundant in the waters off south australia .
tuna are unloaded at a wharf in port lincoln , south australia . the town has the highest number of millionaires per capita in the country . photo : aap
mr waller met one of the old tuna fishermen on the street the other day . when mr waller said he had tuna in pens for tourists to swim with , the reply was , well , very much one of fisherman .
why would you want to do that when you can catch them ?
he asked .
perhaps the notoriously shy but extremely wealthy tuna fishermen of port lincoln  a town with the highest number of millionaires per capita in the country , thanks to the southern bluefin tuna fishery  would not approve of this rubber - necking circuit of their marina . but the times are changing and the other locals are fishing for the tourism dollar .
matt waller , a former skipper on the tuna fleet , has set up his bluefin pen in boston bay , off port lincoln . while the tuna are worth about $ 1100 each , they won ' t be eaten or sold . instead , he takes tourists to see the great fish up close : people can swim with them as they dart around eating pilchards . the tuna are about a metre long , smoky black , muscle - bound and capable of swimming in bursts of up to 70 kilometres an hour .
over the years , nhnz diversified its programming away from just natural history . it gradually expanded its genres to cover health ( kill or cure series ) ; science ( x = force the science of . . . series ; mega disasters series ) ; adventure ( adventure central series ) ; and people ( tribal life series ; the diva mummy ) . in tuna wranglers , nhnz tested the waters of the current popularity of reality shows about the daily lives of blue - collar workers pitting themselves against nature in extreme environments . engineering programmes have also proven popular with the company making a string of shows from asia and china under the man made marvels and megastructures banners .
national documentaries channel thanks for watching ! comment anything as ud like ! tuna cowboys is an award winning national geographic documentary that ventures into the southern ocean to capture the first ever footage of the southern blue fin tuna muster . produced and directed by mike bhana at natural history new zealand , motion pacific provided topside camera and field director services to the project .
hi chris . interesting questions . i’ll have to try and do a little research on this type of tuna fishing . it would be interesting to see a couple more episodes too .
ranching southern bluefin tuna has been a big - ticket industry in south australia for years . one company hopes that inviting tourists to swim with the fish will prove successful , too .
over two weeks , the fish are towed in the net behind the boat at a glacial pace to spencer gulf , near port lincoln , before being transferred to “ranches . ” for the next three to six months , the tuna live in large pens—each containing between 2 , 200 and 3 , 500 fish—where they’re plumped up on a steady diet of high - fat sardines . once ready for market , the tuna are shipped by freezer boats or live airfreight to their final destination , usually japan . a single pen full of tuna can net upward of $ 2 million .
one of the tuna fishermen , sam sarin , has also built a four - star hotel at port lincoln which is run , among others , by adelaide crows players mark ricciuto and simon goodwin .
as you can see even my e - mail address is about fishing your show is great . i do alot of fishing off the new jersey coast tuna are around about three months of the year .
i just want to know what the name of the little town was that they brought the tuna into … . . ya know , where they had that little pub and they got their drink on .
after they hatch , young southern bluefin tuna are swept along the coast of western australia from their spawning grounds near indonesia . some that continue east , into the great australian bight , are captured for aquaculture .
while waiting for season 2 of deadliest catch to arrive , tony and i watched this . it’s just two 45 minute episodes , and it concerns the tuna fishermen off south australia . it’s another discovery channel offering .
but the turkey meeting actually increased the quota for bluefin tuna by 1 , 000 tonnes ( for a total quota of nearly 30 , 000 t ) . carl safina agrees : this decision was : stupid , stupid .
while the tuna fishermen have been supportive and keen that their industry is portrayed well , mr waller says they have little interest in showing tourists around their farms ; it would only be a distraction to the business of exporting sashimi - grade tuna to the japanese , who pay hundreds , often thousands , of dollars a fish .
that leaves it open for people like us to show tourists what the industry is about ,
he said .
while the region is also known for shellfish such as abalone and mussels , and the oyster industry alone is estimated to be worth $ 22 million , it’s most famous for southern bluefin tuna , port lincoln’s pearl . a single tuna—later transformed into as many as 10 , 000 pieces of sushi—can sell for $ 2 , 500 at tokyo’s famous tsukiji market . ( in 2013 , one fish that was considered auspicious reportedly sold for $ 1 . 76 million . )
but while aquaculture typically has a lower environmental footprint than traditional commercial fishing methods , tuna is an exception . the species’ feed conversion ratio is exceptionally low compared to other farmed fish ; a tuna needs to chow down on as much as six times more food than a salmon does . australia catches more than 38 , 000 tonnes of sardines every year just to satiate the demands of port lincoln’s fisheries , making sardines the most heavily fished species in the country .
and this just in : seafood industry consultants predict that u . s . per capita seafood consumption will hit a record 16 . 8 pounds per person when 2007 numbers are officially released later this year . doesn’t seem like anyone is doing too much sacrificing–for mercury content or otherwise . but if i was a tuna , i would try to eat as much mercury as i could . seems like that might be the only way to keep some tuna in the sea .
the little tour boat idles outside one of the many mansions in south australia ' s port lincoln marina . this particular waterside palace stretches across three blocks and belonged to tony santic , tuna millionaire and owner of champion horse makybe diva .
im a tuna lover , eat it , fish it . i think what these guys are doing is kinda wrong , i know it makes there living and all but i feel like they get very greedy . does anyone else agree ?
the question of the scarcity of bluefin tuna , and the impact that the current fishing practices are having on these incredible fish is not dealt with in this series at all . i imagine it’d put a serious damper on all that australian enthusiasm…
this is a fascinating look at the tuna fishing process , and eye - opening as far as the amounts of money that are spent to find , catch and rear these incredible fish . in comparison to the crab fishermen of alaska , the fishing process is child’s play in terms of safety and working conditions . the deck hands on the bait boat don’t seem to do anything more physically strenuous than toss handfuls of sardines overboard once the tuna have been located . boredom seems to be the biggest challenge .
( discovery channel , 2007 ) gives you a lot of useful information about the bluefin tuna fishing industry in australia . but with an american - accented narrator and a goofy cowboy theme , the film does a pretty fair job of alienating an australian viewer .
southern bluefin tuna are thus caught on the continental shelf south of australia when they weight 15 - 20 kilograms ( at an age of about 2 years ) . they are transferred from the giant purse seine nets into holding pens while out at sea , and the pens are then towed back to port lincoln in south australia – very slowly . there the tuna are transferred to farm pens ( ranches ! ) , and fattened up for a couple of years until they weigh 30 - 40 kilograms . the fish are then caught – by hand , by divers , to avoid damaging them – in the pens , flash frozen , and shipped to japan . this is big money – a large , perfect tuna ( unbruised and unmarked ) fetches thousands and thousands of dollars in japan .
“we’re actually getting increases in quotas because the population is so robust , ” says kirsten rough , a research scientist with the australian southern bluefin tuna industry association . just last december , port lincoln’s fishing industry was awarded sustainability accreditation by the ngo friend of the sea .
who would have ever thought tuna fishing was such an interesting and complex process ? the premier episode of the 2 - part mini series aired august 9th at 1opm eastern and the second episode airs on the 16th . there will be repeats towards the end of this month .
now visitors to port lincoln  on south australia ' s eyre peninsula  can tour the marina and swim with bluefin tuna in a pen not unlike those the fishermen use to fatten their stocks ( after the fish are caught in the ocean in nets and towed carefully back ) .
behind the boy’s snorkel mask is a look of sheer glee . it’s the kind of look stehr and dyer hope to elicit from many more people when they launch their swim - with - tuna operation in victor harbor , a small coastal town and tourist hub over 700 kilometers away .
it should . the film is ultimately a lost opportunity . given a less sensational tone and a more challenging script , it could have advertised the downside of harvesting tuna from the southern ocean . instead , it merely glorifies a bunch of very ordinary guys who just happen to be fishermen .
a handful of sardines is tossed into the water . and another . the little fish vanish as other , much bigger fish rocket up from the murky black depths to gobble them . the tuna slice through the water with the precision and speed befitting their nickname , “ferraris of the ocean . ”
to the average bystander , oceanic victor may seem as bizarre as it is controversial . sure , we swim with dolphins , sharks , rays and a whole host of other marine creatures—but tuna ? dip your head in the water and watch an 80 - kilogram fish whip toward you at highway speeds and you’ll quickly understand the appealing mix of terror and exhilaration . australia’s tuna industry may be poised to change at the same breakneck speed , but one thing will always hold true : for as long as south australia is located by the sea , the livelihood of its people will depend on fishing and tourism . balancing the demand for one species with the negative ripple effects of that demand will always be a challenge . critics and proponents will be waiting for the final ruling on oceanic victor’s fate in victor harbor later this month to see which way , this time , the tuna scales will tip .
“they went through the process and got a tick box for an aquaculture license—even though it’s in … a habitat protection zone . so what’s to stop it from happening in the future ? ” says one conservationist , who asked not to be named . “when [ the tuna industry ] says ‘jump , ’ the government jumps . ”
the pedigrees of oceanic victor’s owners add to the suspicion . yasmin stehr’s father , hagen , made millions with clean seas , his fishing company based in port lincoln . her partner , dyer , is the operations manager of tony’s tuna international , another industry heavyweight , and oceanic victor is co - owned by “tony” himself , tony santic .
the protesters’ fixation on sharks has helped keep the opposition a front - page news item , but is detracting from what could be their strongest argument—in an era when seaworld’s profits are crashing and tourists are increasingly questioning whether animals should be kept in pens for entertainment , swimming with tuna is an antiquated approach to how we interact with wildlife .
cheers… right now i´m without a job , sandly i got problems with my papers and it seems i´m going to lose the king crab season with the f / v bering sea , and become a tuna wrangler seems fun meanwhile i can go back crabbing . can you give me more information of the main harbor were those guys do the offload ?
in 1993 , the three nations responsible for 80 percent of the catch—australia , japan and new zealand—rallied . they agreed to a yearly quota system , managed by the commission for the conservation of southern bluefin tuna ( ccsbt ) , in an effort to curb the decline . the restrictions inspired creativity : how , the australian fishermen wondered , to produce more meat with fewer fish ?
a boy pops his head up from the water . “is this real life ? ” he screams from the floating fish pen . it’s a weekday in port lincoln , australia , and bluefin tuna purveyors yasmin stehr and michael dyer are playing hooky with family and friends . they’re testing out their latest commercial venture , oceanic victor , which focuses on the coveted bluefin—not as food , but as entertainment .
before stehr and dyer took over the floating tuna tank and made plans to relocate it , a similar operation ran without objection in port lincoln for years . the polarity in public opinion boils down to this : the people of port lincoln were naturally more open to the attraction because it’s emblematic of their livelihoods . as many as 4 , 000 of the 14 , 900 or so residents work in the fishing industry .
the ccsbt claims the quota system is working . evidence from aerial surveys , tagging and data projections suggests that tuna have rebounded to about 9 percent of their original spawning biomass , up from the low of 3 percent . by 2035 , ccsbt predicts , the wild stock will have returned to 20 percent of its original spawning biomass . that estimate may seem underwhelming , but it’s enough to make the commission reassess its policies .
complete aquaculture of tuna ( rearing them from larval stages to adult ) has proved difficult for several reasons . tuna are extremely active – they have incredibly fast metabolisms , eat prodigiously , and swim long distances ( their bodies are maginficently put together for swimming ) . simulating their natural environment in a pen is almost impossible ( much like rock lobster ) . they require high - energy food , and lots of it , making farming them an expensive proposition . they are also notoriously reluctant to spawn in captivity , which defeats the purpose of farming them ! the fish are delicate and manhandling them to extract eggs manually or check their state of sexual maturity decreases their value on the open market . finally , there are concerns that fish that escape from captivity may act differently to wild fish , and carry parasites and viruses that could decimate wild populations should they become exposed to them .
researchers at kindai university in japan have demonstrated that industry can be a powerful driver of conservation , too . with the financial support of the domestic fishing industry , they’ve recently developed the technology to breed pacific bluefin tuna , closing the lifecycle . in due time , the technology will likely be adopted in the port lincoln area , reducing the industry’s reliance on wild - caught fish—and potentially affecting the entire industry’s balance of supply , demand and valuation .
tuna can only be spotted when the sea is flat , and while the ocean south of australia is cold and temperamental , in general the bering sea where the crab fishermen make a living makes it look like my bathtub – before i climb in ! the most dangerous part of the whole trip is entering lincoln bay with the incoming tide , site of dangerous reef where peter gimbel and company found great white sharks during the filming of blue water , white death .
you probably know what happened . marian burros wrote an article about mercury in sushi tuna that got on the front page of the january 23rd new york times . blogs ( including this one ) peddled it . later nytimes articles espoused its findings , though said sushi - lovers would ignore them . the fishing industry cried factual errors ( they wrote a letter to the new york times citing five ) and indeed , this correction is now appended to the original article :
it ' s in the waters of the great australian bight that the action takes place . all the main elements of fishing are described on video , from the bait boat which attracts and herds the school of tuna , to the spotter plane , to the divers who manage the catch in enormous nets that are towed out to sea and back , and that contain the juvenile bluefin before they are unloaded to holding pens off the boats ' home town of port lincoln .
for critics of oceanic victor and the industry at large , such as nisa schebella , a protestor from victor harbor , putting people into a pen to swim with the species is overexploiting an already beleaguered species . it’s one thing to keep highly migratory animals in a pen for food—it’s another to do it solely for frivolity . “the more i research , the more i’m bamboozled by the whole fishing industry at large and its dismissal of tuna’s critically endangered status , ” she says .
during a shoot in 2007 , however , one researcher gave fischer a frightening reality check :
while we were helping these scientists , one of them looked at me and said , ' man , if we lose our giant sharks , we ' re not gonna have any billfish or tuna or anything else because they ' re the balance keepers and we don ' t know enough about their lives to create their future . they ' re just too big to catch . '
it ' s a documentary , but it ' s not a great documentary . drama here is very often manufactured for effect , an unfortunate measure which ultimately devalues the material and makes you regret the hokey , down - home narrative that drives the story forward . tuna fishermen make good money . they ' re not in it for the love of it . it ' s not
in their blood
, as the narrative imputes at one stage near the end of the film .
the proposal oceanic victor presented in 2015 was an easy sell for the victor harbor council . worth $ 2 . 4 billion , tourism in south australia is even bigger business than tuna , but victor harbor has been struggling to attract its share of attention . so council fast - tracked the application and oceanic victor received its aquaculture license and approvals from both the victor harbor council and the state government to lease a section of water in the encounter bay marine park , a protected area .
when compared to the fishing practices that nearly decimated the tuna population , it’s undeniable that aquaculture is a necessary alternative . industry spokespeople are justified in boasting about how they’ve reduced by - catch by eliminating longlining , yet they overlook an important point—pens take a toll on the environment , too . ranches collectively release 1 , 946 tonnes of nitrogen every year—a common stressor in marine ecosystems , known to promote algal growth and smother marine life—making them the largest industrial contributor of pollution to the spencer gulf .
the solution was floating feedlots . each year , the fish travel from their spawning grounds off northwest australia in the indian ocean south and then east to the reefs of the great australian bight to feed , making them an easy target . between december and march , fishermen capture around 5 , 500 tonnes of wild juvenile tuna—roughly 367 , 000 fish—using a purse seine method , which involves encircling a school with a weighted fishing net and then cinching it closed at the bottom , like an underwater drawstring bag .
once on the brink of bankruptcy , the community is reveling in its good fortune . the southern bluefin tuna , a highly migratory fish found in the atlantic , indian , and pacific oceans , has been heavily targeted since the 1950s . just 20 years ago , both the species and the fishery were staring down extinction . australian fishermen had begun to reel in as little as 5 , 000 tonnes annually—20 , 000 tonnes less than just three decades earlier . as little as 3 percent of the original southern bluefin population remained .
every year , endangered migratory southern right whales use the bay as a nursery . any increase to predators means that whales may pass by , putting both their population and the town’s main tourism draw at risk . while experts think it’s unlikely that sharks from outside the local area will be attracted to the pen , the same can’t be said of long - nosed fur seals , which have a taste for tuna meat . if attracted to the area , the seals are also likely to hunt and decimate the vulnerable population of little penguins in the area .
within a few months of stehr and dyer applying for permits , there was public uproar in victor harbor . in december 2015 , the same month oceanic victor was scheduled to open , 83 objections were lodged against the proposal , citing concerns that the pen—identical to the kind used in tuna aquaculture—would cause danger to other species and environmental degradation . local businesses hung protest fliers in their windows , opponents circulated a petition , and the lifeguards erected a massive banner across their watchtower . by mid - february , protesters had filed four separate appeals against oceanic victor , stalling its launch .
a chart with the continuation of a front - page article on wednesday about high mercury levels found in tuna sushi in new york stores and restaurants referred imprecisely to what the environmental protection agency deems to be an acceptable level of mercury consumption over a period of several months by an adult of average weight . the agency uses the phrase “reference dose” to refer to the daily level of mercury consumption it considers acceptable for a long - term diet ; it does not use the phrase “weekly reference dose . ” ( to find the acceptable weekly level of consumption over the long term , the reference dose is multiplied by seven . )
i had sushi for since when i was age of 7 , i never ever had any problem at all . it was tuna and about mercury thing ! ! ! in japan , no death from eating sushi since year of 1822 for over 150 years ! please do not get too sensetive about it , but you much find out where it was caming from and where it was cought first . see , we japanese still have a longest human life avarage rate in the world . because myabe we drink hot green tea after every meals we have in japan . that is the main reason , we do not have much of over weighted person in entire japan , see .
hi , i would love to someday work at sea as a tuna wrangler . watching these guys do what they do looks extremely fun and exciting ! i have no idea how to obtain such a position . i love scuba diving , spearfishing and have had years of experience being in the ocean and handling all kinds of marine life . i’m not afraid of sharks and being in the water with a wet suit on and carrying a spear gun would be a dream come true . especially when you get paid for doing something you love ! if i could have some information on how i can apply for a job such as this , or anything that would help me reach this goal that would be greatly appreciated ! i bet there are many people who love to have this sort of career but to me it would be a dream come true ! thanks !
the pens are essentially giant nets , closed at the bottom , with floats around the rim . divers have to check the nets for breakages , monitor the conditions of the fish , and ( occasionally ) deal with sharks who bite their way in , understandably attracted to a giant floating lunchbox of tuna goodness . they either shoot them ( last resort ) or wrestle them out of the pen by hand . bronze whalers are the most common invaders . the underwater footage of the pens and of the divers working in them is magnificent – crystal clear water , thousands of incredible , sleek fish , and a sense of space yet security . the divers are tethered to the surface so that they can maintain radio contact with the boat ( they wear full face masks ) and for air supply , or free dive . there are many ways to get tangled on things , so if they’re on scuba they wear their cylinders ( for emergencies ) upside down with the pillar valve pointing downwards to minimise that risk . as some of the divers said , they can’t believe they get paid to dive , because they enjoy it so much .
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how much does this position pay ? this seems really interesting to me and i have been considering to be one of these when i grow older . i have been fishing since i was 11 and i love fighting bass on my rod . just how they jump out of the water and splash everywhere . it gives you a real big adrenaline rush as you thumb - him and hold him up as a real accomplishment . i also like catching trout to cook them up and eat them later . i don’t mind pan fish either . can any one give me a real good introduction to this position please ? it would be very much appreciated , thank you !
i lived in western australia for a year and i can tell you those jobs are very difficult to get . it was commonly said in perth if you are not italian ( you need to speak it ) then you have no chance getting a job on a lobster boat . i would suspect if you are not from the area and don’t know the families who run these businesses you will not work for them . sad but true , it’s never what you know , it’s who you know . still it was a really cool series .
there is one good looking man aboard the kingfish . . uh . . i think iyt is called kingfish ? he is so hot i saw him today and he was sitting behind a table with others had a green t - shirt on . he had his sunglasses on top of his head and one other time he was cooking ? does anyone know his name or email address ?
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once the catch are brought to the small port located at the mouth of spencer gulf , a fisheries boat draws up alongside and inspectors board the main boat . they sample the catch by hooking and weighing 40 fish . this gives them an average weight . then a camera is set up at the mouth of the holding pen before the fish are herded into it . an inspector counts the number of fish . this number is multiplied by the average weight to establish whether the catch exceeds the stehr group ' s annual allocation .
unfortunately , we didn ' t get to see the inspector ' s decision . it was removed by the film ' s editor . for marcus stehr and his crew , exceeding the catch is a problem because it means they must tow the excess fish back out to sea and release them .
but the fishermen already have some idea while still out at sea about the size of the catch . once the fish have been encircled by the purse seine net and its bottom has been cinched , completely enclosing the fish , and the fish have been transferred to the transportation enclosure , the lead diver enters the enclosure and visually gauges the size of the fish .
if the lead diver says the fish are large enough to be profitably taken , the boats either go for the next catch or return to port .
of course , the film completely sides with the fishermen and conservation of the fish gets no mention at all . the boys ' undertaking is given an heroic cast in the narrative . they ' re sea - going cowboys who wrangle sharks out of the nets by hand and endure months at sea . the film says nothing about the scarcity of the fish .
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“we were blindsided , ” says stehr , later adding , “we thought that we were the good guys coming in with an educational facility . ”
yet port lincoln , a winding 8 - hour drive from victor harbor , isn’t exactly what springs to mind when you say “fishing town . ” beyond the city’s agricultural outskirts , wealth subtly glimmers . evenly spaced palms line the road to the lincoln cove marina , home to the largest fishing fleet in the southern hemisphere , an indoor pool , and a four - star hotel . just down the street , glossy suvs sit in front of new condominiums on roads with names like “laguna drive . ” and the archetype grizzled fisherman is nowhere to be found : the “seafood capital of australia” is reported to have the most millionaires per capita in the country .
while the method of aquaculture has since been adopted along mexico and in the mediterranean sea to raise northern bluefin and atlantic bluefin , port lincoln remains the only place in the world where southern bluefin are ranched . it’s also the only place that doesn’t catch southern bluefin by longlining , a controversial commercial fishing method that uses a long hooked line to trawl waters and often kills other species in the process .
“the future is not the internet ; it’s aquaculture , ” local fishing baron hagen stehr , yasmin stehr’s father , told forbes in 2006 .
fish are tricky to count , which makes determining their population an inexact science . more conservative estimates put the current percent of spawning biomass closer to five percent . the ccbst’s efforts to conserve the species are good , but according to other monitoring bodies , they’re far from good enough . while australia’s environment protection and biodiversity conservation act only classifies the fish as “conservation dependent , ” they remain on the international union for conservation of nature’s critically endangered list .


girl in 313 is a 1940 american drama film directed by ricardo cortez and written by barry trivers and m. clay adams .

the film stars florence rice , kent taylor , lionel atwill , kay aldridge , mary treen and jack carson .

the film was released on may 31 , 1940 , by 20th century fox .

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not sure what makes some think that girl in 313 ( 1940 ) is a film noir . surely only considered such for perhaps containing some elements familiar to the new style , but for me this was simply a standard 30s style crime drama which there had been a bunch of the previous decade . and not a very good one either , in my view . too messy and contrived . a rushed script for a low priority release from fox .
two jewel thieves meet and help each other , but she falls in love with him and he is killed , with her accidental help , in their last robbery which breaks up the gang .
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( 1985 ) and info : urltoken aor & melodic rock blog : urltoken subscribe for new aor & melodic rock videos : urltoken she ' s a magnet i ' m attracted she pulls me close i can ' t deny in the shadows of the night she can ' t see me watching her i can see all the reasons why i ' m drawn to her she ' s the one who caught my eye chorus crazy about her crazy about her she moves me like no one i ' ve ever seen crazy about her crazy about her she ' s so much more the girl in 313 i imagine she ' s attracted and every night it ' s just her and me but the shadows on the shade make it plain how wrong i am the truth is there to see it tears me up it ' s always someone else not me chorus she ' s so close but still so far away she ' s so close but just a shadow on the shade chorus
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a police agent infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves and on the way to finding who the evildoers are , falls in love with a thief .
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an average crime thriller has rice as a police agent going undercover to discover the ringleader of a gang of jewel thieves . she falls in love with one of the hoods , taylor , before she discovers that the crooks are working together with a double - dealing insurance firm . before their love can blossom , taylor is killed in a battle with police . one of a handful . . . read more
in this crime thriller , a female gumshoe goes undercover to bust up a gang of sophisticated jewel thieves who work out of a fancy hotel . the sleuth finds trouble after she finds herself falling for one of the crooks .
the cast of marvel and freeform ' s upcoming new warriors tv series has been announced , with this is us actress milana vayntrub leading the ensemble as doreen green , aka squirrel girl , alongside baby daddy grad derek theler as mister immortal . the pair will be joined by : jeremy tardy ( dear white people ) as night thrasher ; calum worthy ( austin and ally ) as speedball ; matthew moy ( 2 broke girls ) as microbe and kate comer ( the comeback ) as debrii . here is a statement from showrunner kevin biegel :
i am thrilled beyond belief to be working with this incredible group of actors . they are funny , sincere , eager , charming and perfectly embody these characters . it ' ll be a blast and an honor to create this show with each of them .
you may recall that stranger things breakout shannon purser ( barb ) campaigned to play squirrel girl a while back , and she was actually in the running for the role along with parenthood actress mae whitman who is also a huge fan of the character . you ' ll find pics of the cast along with full character description for each of the new warriors over at thr .
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creaky and prim crime with lady snooper joan matthews sleuthing the crap out of a scammy gang of jewel stealing gangsters . not bad .
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trevor john eve ( born 1 july 1951 ) is an english film and television actor .

in 1979 he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series shoestring and is also known for his role as detective superintendent peter boyd in bbc television drama waking the dead .

he is the father of three children , including actress alice eve .

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trevor eve was born on july 1 , 1951 in birmingham , england as trevor john eve . he is an actor and producer , known for
there are some incredible personal accounts of trevor eve ' s kindness as well . redditor
trevor eve played tom schwartz in the tv series lace in 1984 . also starring brooke adams .
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trevor eve who plays sir philip cross sat down for a quick q & a about his character .
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with a career that started in the 70s , trevor eve is still having the time of his life .
so in the end , i think we can all pretty well agree that even in the face of tragedy , a stellar person like trevor eve can . . . wait . not trevor eve . who am i thinking of ?
tv stars felicity kendal and trevor eve are backing a campaign to stop a £1 billion crossrail 2 station being built in chelsea .
trevor eve was born in the year of 1951 , on july 1 in england as trevor john eve . he is an actor best known for his role in the police procedural bbc series , walking the dead . he spent his childhood in sutton coldfield , birmingham .
trevor admits he struggled with fame when shoestring became a hit , aged 28 .
in 1994 , trevor starred in the film don ' t get me started .
they ' ve been married for 35 years , but trevor eve and sharon maughan looked like blissful newlyweds on a recent holiday to portofino , italy .
waking the dead star trevor eve has described the
golden moment
he arrived at church with his film star daughter alice on her wedding day .
trevor eve and sharon maughan british academy television awards ( bafta ) at the london palladium - arrivals london , england - 20 . 04 . 08 :
oh , be still our beating hearts ! we pin down the devilishly handsome trevor eve to grill him about acting , politics and handling love scenes . . .
trevor eve looks very much at home in the beautiful 11th - century surrey mansion where we meet to discuss his roles in david copperfield and death comes to pemberley .
shirtless trevor eve , 64 and bikini - clad wife sharon maughan , 65 look like blissful newlyweds on romantic break in portofino . . . 35 years after tying the knot
trevor eve was born on july 1 , 1951 in birmingham , england as trevor john eve . he is an actor and producer , known for waking the dead ( 2000 ) , she ' s out of my league ( 2010 ) and david copperfield ( 1999 ) . he has been married to sharon maughan since march 1 , 1980 . they have three children .
an ( unrequited ) new year’s eve message from the city . photograph : aidan crawley
trevor eve began by studying architecture at kingston polytechnic , london , then dropped out of that course and went on to train as an actor at the royal academy of dramatic art ( rada ) . he is now an associate of rada . trevor has been married to english actress sharon maughan…
alice eve’s full name is alice sophia eve . she was born on 6th february 1982 in london , england , uk . eve is an english actress . her father’s name is trevor eve and mother’s name is sharon maughan . she is the eldest daughter of her parents . she is known by the people for her movies like starter for 10 ( 2006 ) , crossing over ( 2009 ) , she’s out of my league ( 2010 ) etc .
trevor stars in david copperfield today from 12pm on drama and death comes to pemberley on december 11 .
patrick is a man who i think wants to try and please everybody ,
explains trevor .
from shoestring to waking the dead , actor trevor eve has rarely been off our tv screens . he says it’s luck , but the star of new drama kidnap and ransom has worked for his success
when trevor eve was approached to play the role of dr patrick stowe in the family man he jumped at the chance , especially when he discovered it was written by bafta - winning tony marchant .
in his ama , he told fans that he likes to keep it simple . in 2003 , trevor told
waking the dead star trevor eve declared : ' your partner has got to be the person you want to share everything with and the person you want to be with in terms of friendship as well .
trevor admits he spends a long time deciding what roles he’ll accept and he’s particularly partial to a period drama .
eve co - owns a tv company called projector productions which produced twelfth night for channel 4 .
but i find myself at a remote location in south africa , watching the filming of kidnap and ransom , itv1’s three - part drama about dominic king , a tough but troubled hostage negotiator played by trevor eve .
three children with sharon maughan : alice eve aged 33 , jack aged 30 and george aged 22 .
sharon and trevor met when they were both cast in a touring production of filumena in 1979 and married the following year .
the series stars nicola walker ( babylon ) , sanjeev bhaskar ( the kumars ) , trevor eve ( waking the dead ) , bernard hill ( wolf hall ) , ruth sheen ( mr turner ) and tom courtenay ( quartet ) .
trevor’s series david copperfield and death comes to pemberley will be shown back to back on the channel drama from today and through december .
olivier turned out be quite the mentor , inviting eve to intimate thespian dinners , introducing him to franco zeffirelli , even sponsoring his green card application (
they used to have his letter framed at immigration ,
eve claims . ) the finest british actor of all time advised eve to
be bold . he was a hell of a tiger .
in 2011 , eve criticized the bbc for its promotion and budgeting of doctor who , claiming :
they ' re obsessed with it . it gets all the budget and all the attention .
star matt smith hit back at eve , claiming :
if we all listen to trevor eve , then we’re in trouble . thank you very much , trevor , we appreciate your opinion , but that’s ridiculous . . . show me any other series that can tackle this many big issues , appeal to this broad a range of people , and still have a laugh along the way and i will say , ' you can’t . '
as part of his research , trevor met some couples currently going through ivf treatment , and found it to be a
religious experience .
trevor is currently filming the next series of the emmy - winning drama , waking the dead , in which he plays detective superintendent peter boyd .
at the age of 23 , his closest friend river phoenix died of a drug overdose . during a reddit ama last year , trevor said :
in september 2000 eve starred in the pilot episode of the award - winning bbc drama series waking the dead . eve plays the central role of detective superintendent peter boyd , the head of a team of cid detectives , the cold case unit . eve has continued to play boyd throughout the subsequent nine series of the drama , until the show ' s final episode on 11 april 2011 .
which she does throughout this interview with astonishing honesty . take , for example , when i ask about her 31 - year marriage to trevor . there have been rumours , over the years , that trevor , a self - professed flirt , has , let’s just say , taken flirting a step further .
both sharon and trevor starred with their daughter in romcom movie she’s out of my league , and over the summer trevor and alice featured in a british film called bees make honey that his eldest son jack , 31 , wrote and directed – and youngest son george , 22 , was the music coordinator for .
trevor eve was just 28 when he became a household heartthrob thanks to west country detective eddie shoestring . after a distinguished and diverse career on stage and screen it was another detective who would prove to be his second signature role - the rough , gruff dci boyd in waking the dead .
it’s hard to believe that trevor eve has been acting for over 40 years . we’re sat in ancient armchairs in a vast country pile in surrey , and it’s fair to say the actor , who became an overnight heart - throb playing eddie in shoestring in 1979 , is doing well for 65 .
in april 2008 eve starred as game show host and tv personality hughie green in the bbc four biographical film hughie green , most sincerely .
and its sequels , eve gave $ 80 million of his $ 114 million earnings to the special effects and makeup staff of the films .
mr eve ' s apartment is part of a sprawling complex set in elegant grounds on the banks of a canal and fringed with palm trees .
“a family friend builds movie sets , doesn’t design , is one of the poor dudes that just builds . anyways he worked on the set for the matrix and trevor eve heard about family trouble he was having and gave him a $ 20 , 000 christmas bonus to help him out . he also was one of the only people on the set that genuinely wanted to know people’s names , would say hello and mean it , and would talk to people as if they were his peers and not below him just because they were practically making nothing to build a set . i’ve never heard anyone say trevor eve is a douche . ”
some things have definitely changed for the better with the passing of the years . trevor’s wife , gold blend tv ad star sharon maughan , with whom he has three children , admitted a few years ago that they are both
calmer , settled and having a f * * * ing good time
. we ask trevor if that’s still true ?
miss napier describes herself as being eve ' s ' dresser ' on several other programmes , including the acclaimed bbc biographical drama hughie green , most sincerely and framed . she has been working on behalf of eve ' s company , projector productions , which is currently producing the kidnap and ransom series for itv .
they married in 1980 and had two children by the time sharon was offered the gold blend adverts in 1987 . she helped trevor deal with the changes fame brought to their lives .
having achieved so much himself , does trevor have any ambitions left to play out ? “i’d like to do something funny and joyous because i’ve done a lot of stuff that’s dark .
i researched it and went through all the procedures ,
explains trevor .
people were kind enough to let me attend their session , which was staggering and very moving .
alice eve has spoken exclusively to hello ! magazine about her wedding to financier alex cowper - smith . the star trek into darkness actress told how she arrived at the brompton oratory in london in a white cab , alongside her waking the dead star father trevor .
all the way down brompton road , people were beeping and waving because we were in a white cab ,
said alice , 32 .
it was a lovely little golden moment together ,
added trevor .
i was filled with such pride .
“sharon was brilliant and she’s always helped , ” trevor , 65 , beams . “we’re real soul mates . it’s a great closeness , which is essential to me . i’m very lucky .
trevor , who shot to fame playing private eye eddie shoestring , told hello ! magazine :
it was a lovely little golden moment together , i was filled with such pride .
eve , who has three children , alice ( herself now a successful hollywood actress ) , jack and george , adds , “you try to make it right .
sharon maughan curses like a sailor , which surprises me . ‘f * * * ing this . ’ ‘bl * * dy that . ’ hang on , isn’t she supposed to be a bit too posh to swear ? after all , this is the star of the phenomenally successful eighties nescafé gold blend tv adverts and elegant wife of actor trevor eve .
trevor , who is married to holby city actress sharon maughan and has three children , hasn ' t changed his perception of ivf , but certainly now appreciates the dilemma that science is in .
he is known , in the polite parlance of the entertainment world , for being
difficult
: barred from a london theatre after a row over a seat ; berated two women , at a polo match of all things , for smoking near him . trevor eve has a history of arguments with colleagues , about everything from costume choices to camera angles .
the actress added : ' trevor ' s my best friend and there ' s never been a time we haven ' t spoken to one another every day or taken care of one another . '
it is understood eve first met miss napier when she worked on waking the dead in 2004 . she rose to become the show ' s costume supervisor three years later .
eve says of negotiators , “they are usually ex - military and have the ability to stay very calm . the fact that they are also adrenaline junkies is another matter .
eve is felix cramer , a second - rate writer , in this version of andrea newman ' s novel . the vain , beady - eyed character cheats on his wife with a friend ' s teenage stepdaughter . eve was so convincing that women wrote to newman claiming to know the real - life love - rat she based the character on .
he ' s cornered the market in bad - tempered cops and sleazy politicians to become the most bankable star in british tv . so what ' s his secret ? susie rushton meets a very clever trevor
with over 40 years’ acting behind him , it’s hardly surprising alice , 34 , has become an actress , but trevor was still taken aback when she decided to follow in her mum and dad’s footsteps .
when eve starred with the very saucy francesca annis in this tv mini - series about the irish nationalist politician charles parnell ( eve ) having an affair with the wife of an english mp , kitty o ' shea ( annis ) , the press wrongly speculated that they were at it hammer and tongs in real life . before the series aired it was widely accepted that eve had been grossly miscast , but he won everyone over in the end with his lush beard and self - confessed
to the hilt
acting .
i met a very successful ivf commissioner who has never taken a holiday in eight years , is on call seven days a week and starts every morning at 7am with egg collections ,
says trevor .
‘trevor and i have grown together . he married a woman who , i hope , has been a strong enough match for him . i’ve certainly kept him on his toes and he’s kept me on mine . ’
father - of - three eve , 60 , was spotted sharing the balcony of the luxury £1 million apartment he is using in cape town with his personal costume supervisor , georgina napier .
but eve turns out to be a man of contradictions , charmingly proffering biscuits and coffee and leaning across the table to compliment me on my watch . that charm is another , much - remarked , facet of his reputation . he has been married for 30 years to the actress sharon maugham , but rumours of eve ' s philandering have swirled around the couple for decades .
she’s fantastic and has a much greater understanding of everything than i have . we’re real soulmates . it’s a great closeness that we have , which is essential to me . i’m very lucky ,
reveals trevor .
i ' m going to be doing that for ever !
laughs trevor .
as long as people enjoy it , then i ' m happy to do it . but it can get quite gruesome sometimes !
after playing relatively unheralded tv roles such as “man in shower” in the short children in 1976 , eve’s fortunes changed dramatically when he landed the role of the laid - back bristol “private ear” eddie shoestring in 1979 . shoestring was the game changer , and he has never looked back . his latest role , as king in kidnap and ransom , plays to eve’s strengths as an elder statesman .
i didn ' t realise that there were all these particular ethical guidelines that you have to adhere to and that you can only put so many embryos back , depending on the age of the woman ,
explains trevor .
it ' s the very
now
subject of ivf this time rather than suburban sex shenanigans for eve in his role as dr patrick stowe , the head of a successful private fertility clinic . despite doing a broadly positive job helping childless couples conceive , eve ' s character still manages to be a right bastard , ignoring his own two tv - gorgeous children and nursing a massive ego .
eve was born in sutton coldfield , warwickshire , the son of elsie ( née hamer ) and stewart frederick eve . his father was english , and his welsh mother was from the mumbles area of swansea , south wales . educated at bromsgrove school , he had little acting experience during his school days . in his early years eve wanted to be an artist but was dissuaded from this career path by his father for financial reasons . he instead initially studied architecture at kingston polytechnic college in london but dropped out of the course to enroll at the royal academy of dramatic art ( rada ) .
this was eve ' s second sinister turn in a three - part adaptation of an andrea newman novel . eve plays the unsavoury alex kyle , a kinky , manipulative academic who leads his married niece gemma astray and into an extra - marital affair with his cleaner . then he films them doing it . grim . the daily mail loved it , though , calling it
like real life
.
tomorrow night , eve plays the lead role in hughie green , most sincerely , a classy bbc4 biopic that demanded a series of tonsorial transformations spanning the life of the opportunity knocks host over three decades .
still his best - loved role , shoestring took early retirement when eve refused to sign up for a third series . the ambitious young actor had set his sights higher – on classical theatre and hollywood .
but eve also owes much to sir laurence olivier . they met in 1976 at an audition for a tv remake of hindle wakes that the venerable actor was directing .
i didn ' t want to be nervous when i first met him , so i got to the audition early . he was wearing salmon - pink trousers ,
says eve . he got the part , acting alongside donald pleasence .
at the age of three , his father left their family . they stayed in touch for a few years , but after the divorce and moving from city to city , they fell out of contact . trevor eve attended four different high schools and struggled with dyslexia , making his education more challenging than it is for most . eventually he left high school without earning a diploma , though through sheer will , he is an avid reader now .
instead , he became an actor and , straight after rada , in 1974 , eve went to the liverpool everyman theatre to play paul mccartney in willy russell ' s musical john paul george ringo . . . & bert , a celebration of the beatles . anthony sher was ringo .
we mimed , wore wigs , it was a romp ,
says eve of the first production that got him noticed .
eve , from sutton coldfield in warwickshire , originally wanted to be an architect . however , he dropped out of his course at kingston polytechnic in south - west london to take up a place at rada .
the industry has changed somewhat since trevor started out in the 70s , having ditched his plans to become an architect to train at rada . his first tv role was in the sunday drama playing “some kind of toy boy” to annette crosbie in 1977 .
we ' re both relieved that it ' s over . you don ' t enjoy this , do you , trevor ? he looks crestfallen .
really ?
he says , punching a cream cushion :
i thought i was quite forthcoming .
trevor knows better than most ; his wife has been in the industry for as long as he has , and their daughter alice has taken hollywood by storm , starring in the likes of men in black 3 and is currently filming replicas with keanu reeves .
watch trevor in david copperfield in back - to - back episodes on sunday 13 november , from 12 - 3pm on drama , and death comes to pemberley in back - to - back episodes on sunday 11 december , from 12 - 4pm on drama .
but fame has been continual for trevor . he was reported to be one of the highest - paid british actors while he was starring as detective superintendent peter boyd in waking the dead and even now he’s 65 , there’s no shortage of roles – they’re just different .
in real life , sharon maughan has recently spoken about how difficult it has been living with her husband ' s image of a ladies ' man throughout their marriage . the couple have three children , including hollywood actress alice eve .
in 2010 , eve played the father of the female lead , also his daughter , in she ' s out of my league , and starred as peter manson in the itv / mammoth screen remake of bouquet of barbed wire .
eve along with his wife sharon was given the honor on 19 th february 2014 for being asked to perform in front od the queen in the investiture room , along with hugh laurie , sir tom courtenay and dame helen mirren .
to a limited extent , his fervour for family is reflected in his new show , kidnap and ransom , a three - part series made by eve ' s company projector pictures , in which he stars as hostage negotiator dominic king . the character is a long way from the young , heart - throb detective eddie shoestring , who gave eve his big break in the late 1970s . king is trying to juggle the world of hostage negotiation with a troubled teenage daughter .
to help him research kidnap and ransom , eve has tapped into a network of real - life hostage negotiators . in the world of kidnapping , drama comes with the territory , ” says eve . “it contains inherent drama . you don’t have to struggle to find dramatic moments when you’re dealing with hostage negotiations . the negotiators give us so much information , that we could easily make an eight - hour drama out of it . without question , they are amazing people .
i really like tony ' s work ,
says trevor .
i was sent some scripts and think the subject is absolutely fascinating . it ' s at a particular stage now scientifically , but who knows where it could march on into some kind of designer future .
kidnap could scarcely be a more topical subject for a drama . if you can believe it , someone , somewhere in the world is taken hostage every six hours . “kidnap is the fastest - growing crime in the world , ” says eve .
last year eve , who played eddie shoestring in the seventies , attracted plaudits for his role in itv drama bouquet of barbed wire in which his character , peter manson , cheated on his wife by sleeping with one of his beautiful young work colleagues .
eve says of king : “this is an ex - military man who has really experienced life . he has learnt to contain his emotions . he is not a demonstrative person . i enjoy playing that because as a person , i’m the opposite . ”
eve gets hot and steamy in this mystery series set in early 1930s kenya , about a scotland yard detective who must choose between relocation to nairobi and prison . he sets ladies ' hearts a pitter - pat in his khaki fatigues and tastefully sweaty neckerchief .
while trevor accompanied alice to the church , her holby city actress mum sharon , famously known for starring in the nescafe adverts , had joined her daughter on her dress fittings . alice had a bespoke gown made by british designer alice temperley . sharon and trevor were the first to learn that alice and alex were getting married . alex had asked for trevor ' s permission before popping the question to his future bride while they were on a family holiday together in ibiza last july .
we fell in love when we were at school ,
said alice of her new husband .
then life took its course and we both went out and pursued our careers . i always adored him and we were able to reconnect at this time in our lives and magically fell back in love .
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the wolfish gaze and peaked eyebrows are still there , but the hair , it must be said , has been subject to severe cutbacks . trevor eve ' s mane – still as thick as a broom at 56 years old – has been a corollary of his sex appeal , from the tousled mop - top of seventies sleuth eddie shoestring , via the swept - back style of callous tory minister duncan matlock in the politician ' s wife , to the silvery serie - a - manager style that cold - case cop ds boyd favours in waking the dead .
it’s been quite a ride for eve over the last three decades . how would he sum it all up ? “it’s been great . working away from home can be difficult at times . but you can’t complain – it’s not like doing a tour of afghanistan .
wary he may be of our encounter , but eve has no cause to fear the critics . for 30 years , he has carved a reputation among programme - makers as the most bankable star in tv drama . his ratings appeal is undoubted . indeed , there ' s a pleasing symmetry that , while opportunity knocks regularly drew audiences of 24 million , so did shoestring , the hugely popular detective series that was eve ' s breakthrough in the late seventies . today , in a vastly more competitive entertainment landscape , waking the dead regularly hits figures of eight million .
eve himself is carving out a second career developing drama . his production company , projector , has given life to two hefty channel 4 dramas , starring kathleen turner and kate beckinsale , and is working on a third project , a romantic comedy by mike bullen , who wrote cold feet . eve became a producer , literally , by accident – in 1995 , he fell off a polo pony and broke three vertebrae . for six months , he thought he might not walk again . so he set up in business .
i never just wanted to turn up and do my scenes . when i ' m on set , i ' m looking at the focus guy , thinking , ' i could do focus ' .
and eve ' s expansion into programme making was given further range when heggessey ' s talkbackthames purchased a stake last autumn .
work has certainly not dried up for the waking the dead star , who has played all manner of parts in his long career on both the stage and screen , and he also has his own production company . but trevor say he feels fortunate to be a man , as it’s a much harder industry for the fairer sex .
trevor and his wife sharon split their time between their london home and a country house in sussex . the couple met in 1979 when they were both cast in a touring production of filumena , and , as sharon has confided ,
we went on tour and fell in love on the drive to the first venue in norwich .
for 11 years , between 2000 and 2011 , eve was also a regular visitor to our living rooms as the brooding ds peter boyd in bbc1’s hugely popular detective series , waking the dead . the forensics drama came to a close last year after more than a decade at the top of the ratings and eve feels it was right for them to quit while they were ahead . “i loved waking the dead , but i’m very happy it’s not going again , ” he says . “it absolutely feels like a weight off my shoulders . there is no chance of it coming back .
talking about his personal life , he is married to sharon maughan . she is an actress with whom eve was in relationship few years before they got married . the couple e is blessed ed with three children . they are living happily as husband and wife and have no nay signs of divorced .
how on earth did he , erm , nuance green ' s orgasms ?
well , with the implication that he ' s stayed in his own world ,
eve says seriously :
implying that he ' s not really given to the pairing . and he was particularly unpleasant to women .
is a happy story in a lot of ways , but the life of its star wasn’t always . now 50 years old , trevor’s life has been full of more tragedy than you would expect from a movie star . despite each setback , he’s kept pushing forward . it’s helped develop himself into the awesome person that he is on and off the screen .
by the mid - 1990s , according to his own analysis , it was his theatre work that was winning him the plum roles in serious , one - off dramas for the bbc . he moved back to britain and , as he moved into his forties , eve ' s speciality became lying politicians , adulterous husbands and other middle - class miscreants – and women loved him for it . as felix kramer ( a sense of guilt ) , he has an affair with his friend ' s teenaged daughter . in an evil streak , eve ' s character spies on another teenager through a two - way mirror .
so to what does he attribute his longevity in an often fickle industry ? “i’ve always been very committed to my work , ” replies eve , who has been married for 32 years to fellow actor sharon maughan . “when i do something , it means something to me . maybe that transfers onto the screen .
‘i can categorically say we’ve never had an open marriage . some people in our profession do and we don’t . i don’t know a woman alive who would happily accept that . cheating’s horrible and the suggestion of it is horrible . trevor’s my best friend and there’s never been a time we haven’t spoken to one another every day or taken care of one another .
smash .
well , you ' re too young to remember hughie green ,
eve says testily , shifting in his seat . perhaps . but , like many , i do remember paula yates ' s very public discovery that green was her biological father , a revelation that is the crux of most sincerely .
it wasn ' t eve ' s parents who fed his theatrical ambitions .
it wasn ' t supported in northern birmingham . they thought i was insane ,
he says . as a child , he didn ' t take even minor roles in the plays at his hated boarding school , bromsgrove in worcestershire .
too forthcoming , on second thoughts – the next day , we get a call asking for copy approval ( politely declined ) . but for what reason is trevor eve so wary of the press ? last year , the daily mail did indeed publish unflattering pictures of him on the beach in barbados . but it can ' t be that his vanity is wounded – he ' s far too sane on the subject , saying :
surgery doesn ' t interest me . i ' d be far too concerned about how it would come out . as they brought the mirror , i ' d be thinking , ' what if they ' ve fucked up . . . ? '
in his latest role , eve plays a highly dysfunctional father who yearns pathetically for a relationship with an illegitimate daughter while being unable to manage any affection for his legitimate offspring . most sincerely begins with a news of the world hack announcing to the congregation at green ' s funeral that the dead man is the real father of paula yates . the film then tracks back to green ' s unhappy childhood , miserable marriage , hands - off attitude to parenting and scores of affairs , the latter requiring scenes of rough sex that tested even eve ' s expertise as the king of small - screen venality , the british answer to michael douglas .
trevor can’t believe his age either :
people have to remind me i’m 65 because i don’t feel it ,
he smiles .
nobody does , but things change . although , amazingly , hardly a day goes by without somebody saying , ' i loved you in shoestring , ' and all i say is that it’s great they can still recognise me from that !
his first major film role was in dracula ( 1979 ) , playing jonathan harker . eve appeared in hindle wakes ( 1976 ) directed by laurence olivier as part of the laurence olivier presents tv series . in 1979 and 1980 he became famous throughout the uk for playing the role of the private investigator eddie shoestring in shoestring .
in 1995 huddleston became the founding patron of action for southern africa ( actsa ) , which was established as the successor to the aam , and held this position until his death . huddleston was appointed a knight commander of the order of st michaels and st george in the 1998 new years honours . at his investiture on 24 march 1998 he chose the designation ‘bishop trevor of sophiatown’ .
eve ' s attention to detail is a leitmotif of his acting style . on the first day of shooting shoestring , back in 1979 , he had a stand - up row with the director because he believed so strongly that eddie ' s tie would be skinny , not kipper - style . ( he won the argument . )
eve ha started her career in 2004 by acting in television drama hawking . she had also done television drama the rotter’s club , agatha christi’s poirot . in 2004 she had also starred in the film stage beauty . after that in 2006 she had acted in two comedy films starter for 10 and big nothing . in early 2006 she had done a mini - series losing gemma . she had also acted in two plays directed by trevor nunn and rock and roll by tom stoppard . she was also nominated for the best supporting actress at the whatsonstage . som theatergoers’’ choice awards for the performance in those two plays . she had also played roxanne in production of cyrano de bergerac at chichester festival theatre in 2009 . then after in 2010 eve acted as the female lead role in an american romantic comedy film she’s out of my league in which her parents also acted as her character’s parents . she had also done a film sex and the city . she had also a recurring guest role of hbo series entourage during 2011 . in 2013 she had also acted as the character named dr . carol marcus in star trek into darkness . during the same year eve also took part in the opening session of the 2013 consumer electronics show . she also did a music video of paul mccartney’s named queenie eye . in 2013 she had done a film directed by chris evans 1 : 30 train in new york .
eve ' s first tv role , and greatest ever haircut . eddie shoestring is a former computer programmer , turned mental patient , turned private detective , who solves crimes while spinning his wheels of steel as a west country radio dj , while wearing pyjama jackets instead of shirts . a cult hit , it ran for only 21 episodes .
eve has enjoyed a long and successful acting career on stage , television and film , with his career spanning back to the 1970s . one of his early stage successes was portraying paul mccartney in willy russell ' s play john , paul , george , ringo and bert at the lyric theatre in london ' s west end in 1974 .
upon graduating , he soon found work in the theatre , giving a memorable performance as paul mccartney in the 1974 london west end production of willy russell’s play , john , paul , george , ringo and bert . eve has always thrived in the theatre , winning olivier awards for children of a lesser god in 1982 and uncle vanya in 1997 .
david copperfield was a long time ago , but daniel radcliffe was the young david ( aged 10 ) and he was really good ,
recalls trevor .
death comes to pemberley wasn’t so long ago and was a lot of fun . we were filming in chatswood , highwood house and castle howard with a great group of people and we all enjoyed each other’s company enormously through a very hot summer .
‘i’ve heard so many stories about trevor and myself – about other women , things he’s meant to have said , ’ she says . ‘but you stop listening in the end . and , if anything rings vaguely true , you just deal with it . you can’t listen to s * * t – it drives you insane – but nor should you tolerate s * * t . i don’t believe that any woman should .
that word might just encapsulate the experience of both starring in and executive producing kidnap and ransom . however , eve takes in his stride the manifold difficulties of simultaneously headlining in and overseeing an epic production so far from home . having guided me through the snake - infested undergrowth to a shady clearing , he is now sitting opposite me sipping a cup of tea .
trevor , in his early age , wanted to be an artist but moved way from his career path and studied architecture at kingston polytechnic college . but , later on , he dropped the course and dedicate his career in acting . he enjoyed a long and successful acting career on stage , television , and film , with his career spanning back to the 1970s . he was awarded twice for his performance in the field of acting .
eve ' s interests include golf , painting , squash and tennis . in 1995 , while playing polo , he was seriously injured when he fell badly from his pony . temporarily unable to act , he took up production . , interview with chrissy iley for the radio times , july 2004 he is also a supporter of chelsea football club . , celebrity chelsea fans , 2010
the film is metatelevision – television about television – which is a preoccupation for programme - makers today . as it is based on real events , eve was obliged to impersonate – territory that ( at least since his days in a beatles wig ) marked a departure . at first he didn ' t want to take the role , so repellent and unsympathetic did he find green .
' i can categorically say we ' ve never had an open marriage . some people in our profession do and we don ' t . i don ' t know a woman alive who would happily accept that . cheating ' s horrible and the suggestion of it is horrible . trevor ' s my best friend and there ' s never been a time we haven ' t spoken to one another every day or taken care of one another . '
' i ' ve heard so many stories about trevor and myself – about other women , things he ' s meant to have said . but you stop listening in the end . and , if anything rings vaguely true , you just deal with it . you can ' t listen to s * * * – it drives you insane – but nor should you tolerate s * * * . i don ' t believe that any woman should .
the adverts ran for five years . ‘it was the best thing that happened to me – they paid me a fortune and it left me free to bring up my children . ’ so what now ? ‘oh , it’s my time , ’ she says . and trevor ? ‘we’re really looking forward to enjoying ourselves . life’s hard but it’s also what you make it . we’re both calmer , settled and having a f * * * ing good time . ’
sharon and trevor have two sons , jack , 25 , and george , 17 , as well as alice , who’s currently working on men in black iii , and they are a very close - knit family . last year , mum and dad played supporting roles to their daughter in the box - office hit she’s out of my league . ‘it was great fun , ’ says sharon . ‘we all loved working together . alice is one of my best girlfriends .
father trevor huddleston was born on 15 june 1913 in chaucer road , bedford , england to ernest huddleston and his wife . soon after , the family moved to golders green , a suburb in north london . at the age of four huddleston served as a ‘boat boy’ in the anglican church , and at the age of five he went to a ‘dame’ school in hampstead garden . two years later at the age of seven he went to tenterden preparatory school in hendon .
i speak for patrick , and not for all the ivf commissioners , but yes , i think so . he has this expertise , and i really think he enjoys using it ,
agrees trevor .
i think the whole idea of being able to give the gift of life to people who can ' t get it in nature ' s prescribed way does tend to seem godlike . . . i don ' t think he sees himself like that .
eve has heterochromia that her left eye is blue and her right eye is green . her favorite poet is andrew marvell . she was ranked 7 in 2010 , 22 in 2008 and 47 in 2009 by the annual independent critics list of the 100 most beautiful famous faces from around the world as the most beautiful famous faces . her biggest inspiration of her life is her grandma betsy who died in 2007 .
' i ' ve heard so many stories about trevor and myself – about other women , things he ' s meant to have said , ' she said . ' but you stop listening in the end . and , if anything rings vaguely true , you just deal with it . you can ' t listen to s * * t – it drives you insane – but nor should you tolerate s * * t . i don ' t believe that any woman should .
growing up in poverty on a council estate in kirkby , merseyside , with four brothers , she was always determined to succeed . ‘i never considered having children . i had one goal and that was to be a hollywood actress . i knew i wasn’t destined to stay on merseyside . ’ she pursued her dream single - mindedly , going to rada at 18 and acting solidly after that , meeting trevor when they were both cast in a touring production of filumena in 1979 .
eve delivered his slimiest performance ever – as sleazy , weak , adulterous tory mp duncan matlock ( the minister for families , naturally ) who boasts juliet stevenson as his wife and a pre - hollywood minnie driver as the former escort girl with whom he has an affair . the suspenseful mini - series won an emmy for best drama , a bafta for best drama serial and juliet stevenson was nominated for a best actress bafta .
this is the waitrose of prime time : reliable , upmarket and every so often ( but not too often ) a little bit exciting . since 2000 , eve has played maverick detective peter boyd , head of the cold case squad , which solves ancient crimes using modern techniques . part - bully , part - inspiration to his team , boyd delights in bending the rules . wtd has been a staggering , emmy - winning success .
even off screen , eve ' s crowning glory has been the subject of column inches and national debate ; according to recent newspaper reports , he lost his rag while watching the polo at cowdray when two female spectators let their cigarette smoke drift under his nose . his wife , the actress sharon maughan , complained that trev ' s hair was about to catch fire . ( cue gossip - column sneers about his overuse of hairspray . )
trevor is particularly partial to a period drama . “we all like to time travel and that’s what period dramas do . they are the ultimate recreation and fantasy , and i really enjoy making and watching them . for a contemporary piece , you roll up in the morning and spend a couple of minutes in make - up and everyone looks the same , but if you’re in a period piece then it’s quite exciting because everyone turns up and you’re like , ‘wow ! ’ you really are aware you’re creating another world . ”
it was when zeffirelli cast him in filumena that eve met maughan , an actress whose credits include holby city but who is best remembered for flirting her way through the long - running gold blend ads with co - star anthony head .
you can understand each other ' s concerns ,
he says of marriage to another actor :
the anxiety and the sleepless nights you go through , the process of getting work early in your career .
during the late eighties he lived in los angeles – though he spent most of his time commuting back to the london stage .
i was the only actor living in beverly hills working at the national theatre ,
he says . eve raised a family there with maughan , made a series for us television , and films in canada and germany , but not hollywood .
i enjoyed the lifestyle . i ' m not an la - hater ,
he says .
eve is afraid of sounding elitist , but he can ' t help criticising the contemporary dumbing - down of television schedules .
when i was growing up , that jean - paul sartre series the roads to freedom was a big hit . i don ' t think you ' d get that now . i ' m not harping on about the golden years , there was certainly a lot of rubbish too , but i think that projects are more accessible to everybody now .
one project eve is not contemplating yet is taking on the classic shakespearean role for the older male actor . “king lear ? ” he exclaims . “for god’s sake , i can’t believe i’m there already ! give me a few years , please . i’d be excited at some point in the future to play lear , but i’m not there yet . let’s not even discuss it . i don’t want this to be the interview where i discuss the possibility of my king lear . ”
but daniel percival , the award - winning director of the hughie green film , who worked with eve on waking the dead , says now :
boyd is a role he created . he ' s honed it for almost a decade .
lorraine heggessey , the former controller of bbc1 , now chief executive of talkbackthames , agrees .
he ' s a very intelligent actor and has always been interested in the scripts he ' s been asked to perform . he ' s meticulous .
so has he ever had a bad experience with the press ?
as if i ' m gonna tell you !
he yelps . then he recounts a tale about being stitched up by a journalist a decade ago . during a jolly long lunch , during which eve had bared all , the dastardly hack pretended to be interested in his work – only for the actor to discover that , in print , the only part that went reported were his comments on a news item concerning his private life .