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
Catch Em’ Up – 2012
The start of 2012 has been a success for The Billfish Foundation and the conservation that we do. From all over the world, TBF members have sent pictures highlighting another great year out on the water. We appreciate it. Here in Catch ’em Up we would like to thank our members for their continued support, which makes our conservation efforts and scientific research possible. Thank you from TBF. Catch ’em up. If you have any photos from 2012 that you would like to share, submit them
Purse Seine Fishing & Pacific Sailfish
Join TBF in our advocacy efforts to protect the Pacific Sailfish fishery so that we can have good fishing
TBF and King Sailfish: Tag and Release
This short film provides information on the proper handling and release of fish, as well as a brief introduction to The Billfish
A NIGHT IN ATLANTIS
On October 26, 2012 come celebrate a night to remember at TBF’s 26th Annual Gala Fundraiser with Aquatic Culinary Creations, Live Entertainment, and both silent and live auctions while you dance the night away under the sea. To Purchase indivudal tickets or VIP Tables, please click
THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION’S ELLEN PEEL, NAMED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA TO KEY WHITE HOUSE POST
FT LAUDERDALE, Florida, USA — Ms. Ellen Peel, the much respected president and CEO of The Billfish Foundation, who has also served for three years as a U.S. representative to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), has been named by President Obama as U.S. Commissioner to ICCAT. The announcement by the White House, along with the appointments of two others, was made May 10. Russell F. Smith III was also named a U. S. Commissioner to ICCAT. The third appointee was Caitlin Durkovich, named to the Department of Homeland Security as Assistant
AGREEMENT YIELDS LONGLINE CLOSURE FOR UPCOMING COSTA RICA FISHING TOURNAMENT
Puntarenas, Costa Rica: In a groundbreaking move and through a joint effort between The Billfish Foundation and the Presidential Challenge Charitable Foundation, commercial longlining will be closed in a 40-mile area during the upcoming Presidential Challenge of Costa Rica tournament, March 1-4, 2012. Herbert Nanne, the TBF Conservation Director for Central America successfully proposed through the National Sportfishing Commission, where he is a member, an agreement to close the waters off Carrillo, Costa Rica during the Presidential Challenge tournament to INCOPESCA, the Costa Rican Fisheries and Aquaculture Institute whose duties include management of the nation’s fisheries, both commercial
