The Billfish Foundation’s Mission
The Billfish Foundation believes in conservation through sportfishing by using Research, Education, and Advocacy. Support TBF and ensure that fishing opportunities are available for future
Billfish Tagging 101 – en français
For all of our french speaking friends, learn how to tag billfish from John Brownlee and Capt Ray
TEACH A KID TO TAG, MAKE A MEMORY FOREVER
Lighthouse Point,FL – Do you remember the first billfish you hooked into? The amazementyou felt when you watched it jump and dart through the water? The burningfeeling in your arms as you cranked in the last bit of mainline, but you hadtoo much pride to dare complain about how tired you were as you watched yourfirst billfish swim away from the boat with a bright orange tag in it’s back.Remember that excitement? Imagine taking a day off from high school classes tocatch your first sailfish—what could be much better? TBF’s Andrew Cox teaches a student the proper way
BLUEWATER ISSUE 94 – INTRODUCE SOMEONE NEW TO FISHING
We all fish for different reasons. Whatever the motivation we build a collection of individual fishing accomplishments. Through this lifelong journey you will always remember who taught you to fish and your enjoyment the first time you felt a tug on the other end of your line. This created the first page of your ‘Book of Angling Firsts’. With each accomplishment you add or a new page or chapter, something you can look back upon with joy. However, in my opinion, giving someone the opportunity to catch their own ‘first’ is something that will give you a new sort
TBF AND WATERLUST RELEASE ‘MONEYFI$H’
Ever wonder how scientists and The Billfish Foundation (TBF) learn more about billfish? Well, The Billfish Foundation is proud to release a short movie called ‘Moneyfi$h’, a Waterlust film on just that very thing. Learn how the sportfishing world contributes to science and conservation. https://youtu.be/SD_w9ZQyWb8 TBF would like to thank to everyone involved in this
Billfish Tagging 101
Learn how to properly tag billfish and why reporting your catches are important from two fishing authorities – John Brownlee and
TBF AND WECAFC HOSTS WORKSHOP ON CARIBBEAN SOCIO-ECONOMICS
Santa Marta, Colombia – On November 4, 2012 The Billfish Foundation (TBF) and the Secretariat of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) collaborated to put on an ‘Expert Workshop on the Assessment of Socio-Economic Impacts of Recreational Fishing – the Caribbean, a Beginning’ in conjunction with the 65th annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) held from November 5-9, 2012. The expert workshop was attended by 29 experts from countries and territories including Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Belize, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago
Teach a Kid to Tag, Make a Memory Forever
Lighthouse Point,FL – Do you remember the first billfish you hooked into? The amazementyou felt when you watched it jump and dart through the water? The burningfeeling in your arms as you cranked in the last bit of mainline, but you hadtoo much pride to dare complain about how tired you were as you watched […]
Local Broward High School Student & Teacher Win Prestigious Award
Every year, National Week of the Ocean, Inc. honors community leaders and marine educators. This year, two of the recipients Jessica Jessup (a senior) and Susan Ostheim from South Broward High School, will be recognized for their work on a mural they did with The Billfish Foundation (TBF) over the past year. TBF would congratulate […]
Purse Seine Fishing & Pacific Sailfish
Join TBF in our advocacy efforts to protect the Pacific Sailfish fishery so that we can have good fishing
