The Billfish Foundation’s 2020 Virtual Gala
Despite COVID-19 and resulting challenges for The Billfish Foundation (TBF), board members and staff invite you to join and support our 2020 VIRTUAL Gala, guaranteed to be casual as you view, bid and donate from the comfort of your home! Think of the money you will have saved by not attending in person, which you can now spend on Silent Auction items or give a tax-deductible donation to help TBF during these unprecedented times. We hope you understand our dilemma and will help. Next year we will party hard at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort, but first we must
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
TBF’s Gamefish on Thrones Gala Recap
A multitude of characters, looking like they stepped straight out of Westeros, caused heads to spin and added lots of excitement to TBF’s gala, Gamefish on Thrones. Wildlings and Night’s Watchmen filled the ballroom wearing fur from boots to shoulders as the Night King and his whitewalkers brought a sense of unknowing fear to some. That is, until a uniformed platoon of knights marched in, some riding dragons, and kept watch during the dark of night as strangers sipped Bacardi libations. At the same time, strong and beautiful Queens and Khaleesis showed their power as they worked their magic
TBF’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
The Paxson H. Offield Lifetime Science Achievement Award The award is named in honor of a former TBF board member, who believed passionately in the value of science to support responsible conservation and management. Offield’s support of billfish science guaranteed TBF’s billfish advocacy remained firmly grounded in science, as it remains today. Offield was the first among TBF trustees to deploy satellite tags with collected data now being incorporated into stock assessments. This year’s recipient is Dr. Fredy Arocha, a professor at the Instituto Oceanografic de Venezuela, University of Oriente, Venezuela, who has invested over three decades to advancing
Winter is Coming…
If you are captured by the passion, suspense and drama in the HBO Fantasy Series, Game of Thrones, step into that drama, costumed, on November 1, 2019, at the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Be the last standing individual in the live auction battle and secure your place on the Iron Throne. Every house in the seven kingdoms, dragons, and dire wolves will feast, connive, drink and party the night away to support The Billfish Foundation and all of our programs to benefit billfish and the communities dependent on them. Contact us for sponsorship opportunities
TBF’s Austin Powers Party was a Hit…Yeah Baby, Yeah!
What a night it was with Austin Powers and his entire cast of characters partying with other TBF friends at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort! Yeah Baby!!!! They shagged and boogied down late into the night. TBF’s party again topped the “hot party charts” for the week of the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show, it was “The” event! Bacardi libations kept the evening flowing smoothly and Marriott’s top chefs pleasured palates, even with an Austin Power’s image on desserts. Guests enthusiastically supported the silent and live auctions taking home outstanding art, trips, tackle, electronics and jewelry! Lifetime Achievement Awards were
Announcing TBF’s Annual Gala – The Spy Who Tagged Me!
Make sure to save the date and come dressed as your favorite character(s) for our gala & fundraiser, during the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Friday, November 2, 2018 at the Harbor Beach Marriott. Join us and celebrate 32 years of billfish conservation while honoring those who have helped make TBF all it is today! Get your tickets today! Need a room at the gala? Click here for the our blocked off rooms
