New Tag & Release Category – TBF Legends
Starting with the 2025-2026 TBF Annual Tag & Release Competition (November 1st, 2025 – October 31st, 2026), The Billfish Foundation (TBF) will…
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The Book on Travel Fishing
The Book on Travel Fishing is the most comprehensive, global offshore fishing resource ever published. How to, where to, and with who to catch blue…
Read moreHow Treaty to Protect the ‘High Seas’ May Impact Highly Migratory Species
The faraway place of the ‘high seas’ is exactly what it sounds like: vast swaths of ocean that belong to no one…
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Anglers We Will Miss: Dr. C. Phillip Goodyear
Dr. C. Phillip Goodyear of Havana, FL passed away on April 25. TBF and all of fishery science lost a leader with…
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Recapture on Japanese Longliner!
On August 9th, 2022, Katsue Koyano caught a blue marlin aboard Motohiko Goto’s boat, Gotch, in the waters of Hyoutan, Japan. The…
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New Striped Marlin Study
Scientists have recently discovered that predatory fish, such as the striped marlin, use rapid color changes to coordinate their attacks on prey.…
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76th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Recap
TBF back presenting at GCFI In November of this year, three members of TBF traveled to Nassau, The Bahamas for the Gulf…
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Marlin Fly Project, Costa
For years, we have all heard about the amazing fishery and waters in Magdalena Bay, Mexico. From the hookups of doubles, triples,…
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Pacific Striped Marlin Rebuilding Plan
Western & Central Northern Pacific striped marlin, whose abundance, especially spawning-stock biomass, and size are greatly diminished and retain low priority within…
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