Author Archive for: peter_chaibongsai@billfish.org
Entries by Peter Chaibongsai
TBF’s Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
The Paxson H. Offield Lifetime Science Achievement Award The award is named in honor of a former TBF board member, who believed passionately in the value of science to support responsible conservation and management. Offield’s support of billfish science guaranteed TBF’s billfish advocacy remained firmly grounded in science, as it remains today. Offield was the […]
2018 Recreational Atlantic Billfish Landings Updates
The table below provides the total number of billfish (January 1, 2018, through, December 31, 2018) landings in numbers of fish for Atlantic blue and white marlin, roundscale spearfish, and western Atlantic sailfish. We can see as stated in a previous post, that the recreational community was below not only the 250 quota but almost […]
Angling Category Trophy Bluefin Tuna Fishery for Southern Area Closed
Bluefin Tuna Fishery closed in the Southern Area NOAA Fisheries determined that the Angling category southern area “trophy” bluefin tuna (measuring 73 inches or greater) subquota of 1.8 mt had been reached and exceeded and therefore closure of the southern area trophy bluefin tuna is warranted. The southern area is the area south of 39°18’N […]
Winter is Coming…
If you are captured by the passion, suspense and drama in the HBO Fantasy Series, Game of Thrones, step into that drama, costumed, on November 1, 2019, at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Be the last standing individual in the live auction battle and secure your place on the Iron […]
FADS FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO APPROVED
The Proposed Okaloosa County (north central Gulf of Mexico) recreational fishing Buoy/Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) System was approved as a means to improve catches of billfish and other species. The stated hope of county officials is to transform the region from targeting reef fish (especially red snapper) to targeting pelagic fish, including billfish. The eight […]
Dolphin Wahoo Fishery Allocation Update
The Billfish Foundation recently submitted comments again to The South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council regarding the future management of a dolphin (mahi mahi) and wahoo fishery. The Amendment looks to modify the management strategy for mahi-mahi that would better ensure healthy population levels into the future. Central to protecting mahi-mahi is a restriction of pelagic […]
TBF’s 2019 Tag and Release Ceremony
Over 30 award winners from all over the world came to be recognized as some of the top anglers, captains and mates for tagging and releasing the most billfish in our competition year. Earning one of these prestigious awards, produced and donated by King Sailfish Mounts and a pair of Costa Sunglasses, symbolizes a year of hard […]
