TBF ANNOUNCES THE 2012 TAG AND RELEASE AWARD WINNERS
The Billfish Foundation is proud to announce the Award Winners for the 2012 Tag and Release Competition. This year TBF received nearly 7,000 tag and release reports from all over the world through both the traditional card system and TBF’s Tag and Release Online Database. Many new names have emerged in this year’s competition and we are excited to see the continued support from winners of previous tag and release awards. This year the Award Ceremony is sponsored by Bisbee’s Black & Blue Tournaments with the awards presented by King Sailfish Mounts and Costa Sunglasses. The ceremony will take
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
SUPPORT THE ARTS AND BILLFISH CONSERVATION
A special exhibit, “ART & THE BILLFISH,” done by the by members from the National Art Honor Society & Photography Club, many of whom are Marine Magnet students, all from South Broward High School will be at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. This exhibition, supported by The Billfish Foundation, will be displayed for the entire month of December and the opening reception is free to the public and will take place on Wednesday, Decemeber 5,2012 from 3-5 pm. Students have created nearly 40 works of art that express their knowledge of billfish and preservation efforts as well as
ICCAT COMMISSION MEETING NOV. 12-19 RECAP
Over the past week, TBF’s President and the U.S. Recreational commissioner for the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), Ellen Peel, attended and took part in vigorous negotiations during a ICCAT meeting in Morocco and reported the back on the following: Billfish While last week ended with the possibility that all existing conservation measures for Atlantic blue and white marlin might expire, hard negotiations over the weekend resulted in the adoption of new strengthened measures. The Commission adopted hard quotas consistent with the scientific advice for all nations landing marlin with reductions from recent average catches
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 […]
New E-15 Fuel – Good or Bad?
Is this influx of “new” fuel be safe for your vehicles? E-15 fuel, which stands for a 15% Ethanol mixture in fuel and sometimes labeled Flex Fuel, demands you be alert. Earlier this month the President authorized that E-15 can be sold year round, despite experts warning that E-15 fuel can damage boat, snowmobile, motorcycle […]
BILLFISH CONSERVATION ACT SIGNED INTO LAW!
The Billfish Foundation and our partners at the Center for Coastal Conservationare proud to announce that President Obama signed into law the Billfish Conservation Act this evening. This prohibit the importation and sale of billfish the domestic United States. Therefore benefitting not only the fish but also all the sportfishing and tourist communities dependent on healthy billfish stocks. With one law being signed and passed, the number 1 importer of billfish is now off the market. Congratulations and thank you to all of you who have supported our efforts by sending letters to your congressmen and women as well
