photographers from all over
the world. It was perhaps
Nova Scotia's biggest tourist
attraction. Charter boats
were busy from late June to
October chasing bluefins.
   Hundreds of bluefins were
caught each year off the
coast of Wedgeport, but in
1949, seventy-two tuna were

caught during the
International Tuna Cup Match
making a total weight of
30,161 pounds. That was the
most tuna as well as the
highest weight ever caught in
a match to date.
   During the International
Tuna cup matches the winning
team would be awarded the

Alton B. Sharp Cup, the 5th
oldest cup in international
sports. The tournament
stopped being held in South
West Nova Scotia in 1976 due
to lack of fish.
   
   In 2004, twenty-eight
years after the tuna
tournament was cancelled,

there was a revival. A small
group of Wedgeport citizens
integrated the tuna
tournament with the Yarmouth
Shark Scramble. Sadly, no
fish was caught that year.
Wedgeport did not give up and
the following year, two
bluefins were landed. In
2008, sixteen bluefin tuna