2025 TBF Award Ceremony
DATE March 21, 2025 LOCATION West Palm Beach Marriott (1001 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401) EVENT INFORMATION Save the Date for the 2024 Billfish Awards Ceremony! 🎉🏆 The Billfish Foundation is proud to announce the new date and location for this year’s highly anticipated TBF Awards Ceremony! Join us March 21st at the […]
2024 TBF Gala Recap
The Billfish Foundation’s (TBF) annual fundraiser took on a whole new dimension this year, with a Wild West theme that transported guests into a world of outlaws, cowboys, and frontier elegance. Held at the stunning Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa on Friday, November 1st, the evening was an unforgettable journey back in […]
Steve C. Levi Memorial Trophy Youth Conservation Award
The Billfish Foundation & Gulf Coast Yacht Group present a new Award for Gulf of Mexico Youth Anglers – the Steve C. Levi Memorial Trophy Youth Conservation Award Following the untimely and tragic death of Steve C. Levi, his daughters, Kristen Dzwonkowski and Chelsea Scruggs donated to The Billfish Foundation (TBF) a gorgeous bronze marlin sculpture of their father’s. It was decided to have the sculpture honoring Steve to become a perpetual trophy, the Steve C. Levi Memorial Trophy, for a youth competition in the Gulf of Mexico. The trophy will continue to be housed in the
Winners of The Billfish Foundation’s Most Prestigious Awards Announced
The Billfish Foundation’s (TBF) staff proudly announces the winners of its most prestigious awards for 2020. This year’s winners include three distinguished gentlemen, who made exemplary contributions to advancing billfish research, conservation and sportfishing throughout their lives. THE WINTHROP P. ROCKEFELLER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD honors TBF’s Founding Member, a well-known angler, philanthropist and owner, at the time, of Allied Marine in Miami, who established billfish science and youth education as the organization’s cornerstones. This year’s winner is Roy Merritt of Merritt’s Boat and Engine Works in Pompano Beach, Florida, whose family’s contributions to building fine sportfishing yachts began
