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The purpose of the Seminar is to introduce the participating students to the sport of giant tuna fishing and to provide them with expert instruction in fishing techniques. The program will consist of evening lectures on the identification, distribution, and economics of big game fish such as tuna, black marlin...
The first Seminar was held at Wedgeport in early August of 1956. At that time Yale invited St. Francis Xavier University of Antigonish, Nova Scotia to participate. Not a single student attending had previous big game fishing experience. The contestants came from different parts of the United States and Canada...
Wedgeport is in an area of the Navo Scotia fishing banks that has attracted fishermen fom distant places since the sixteenth century.
The big game fishing match between Yale and St. Francis was the first intercollegiate event of its kind to take place. The first intercollegiate fishing match of any kind was held at Amherst in May, 1949. Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Norwich and the University of Massachusetts spent two days in light...
Yale's Game Fish and Tuna Match, Yale points out, is much more than a fishing match. Although part of the success of the original 1956 match was the capturing of a 630 pound tuna by Al Wood-Prince, captain of Yale's team, the sponsors "were also gratified" by...