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NAUFRAGE, P.E.I. — A 10-year-old boy from Prince Edward Island who recently reeled in a mammoth 220-kilogram bluefin tuna off the province’s northeastern shore says he’s not quite satisfied with his potentially record-breaking catch.

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Koen Norton set out on his family’s charter boat on Sunday in Naufrage Harbour hoping to break the International Game Fish Association’s record for the biggest tuna ever caught by a boy aged 10 and under using the stand-up fishing technique.

Norton said it was a thrilling experience landing the monster fish, which weighs more than four times as much as he does.

“Around 1:25 p.m., we hooked up and I fought him for about an hour and then he got tired and I got him up to the boat,” Norton, who has been fishing for half his life, said in a phone interview from his family’s boat in Naufrage, P.E.I.

“I pulled the rod up and I felt him and I could feel that he was big… and I was thinking that I was going to have the record.”

His father Greg Norton said the previous record was set earlier this month by two brothers from Tasmania, who landed two tunas weighing in at 112 kilograms and 122 kilograms. He said before that, the record was only 27 kilograms.

Although his son’s potential record blows the previous ones out of the water, Norton said the family is not sending in the application papers just yet.