TBF's Tag and Release Online Database (TROD)

© Carol Ott

The Billfish Foundation (TBF) has some exciting news that will change how people report their billfish tags and release reports. TBF is proud to launch its Tag and Release Online Database (TROD), an online data entry system that allows the user to easily enter their tagging and/or release data from anywhere in the world with internet access. Click here to register!

TBF's hope is that anglers, captains and fleets will utilize TROD as their virtual logbooks and help to facilitate more accurate and timely data to TBF. This interactive program will provide a fast way for the sportfishing community to enter their data, see their own data, and offer a number of unique and exciting features for the users. In addition, TROD will provide TBF with more of the sound science that has been used to fight for billfish conservation and anglers' rights since the tagging program's inception in 1990.    

The new data self-entry system will also reconcile a number of former issues with card submission, such as items being lost in the mail, illegible handwriting and incomplete data on the cards. TBF hopes this will encourage people to be more active in tagging and reporting both tag and release data. Online entry will help speed up the rewarding aspects of the Tag & Release Program- the faster TBF receives the data, the sooner staff can mail release certificates to members and help expedite calculations for TBF's Annual Tag and Release Competition and the Collegiate Billfish National Championship.

Registration is easy and FREE. Instructions on how to enter your data are provided as well as offer some troubleshooting tips. TROD will be consistently evolving, so be sure to come back.  If you have any questions about TROD, please contact us.