BTT recently received word that a permit was recaptured during the Black Tail Invitational, hosted by Mike Dawes of WorldCast Anglers at La Pescadora Lodge in Punta Allen, Mexico, with support from a number of generous sponsors. The BTI tournament is held annually and donates all proceeds from entry fees and auction items to the […]
Check out this animated short from Costa Sunglasses about Florida’s Water issues.
In early February, Bahamas Initiative Manager Justin Lewis and research assistant Robbie Roemer traveled to Mangrove Cay Club located in Andros to work with the guides there to collect genetic samples and tag bonefish. On the first morning of the trip the team was welcomed by dark skies, wind and rain from a strong cold […]
On Tuesday, incoming Senate President Joe Negron called for a massive land-buy south of Lake Okeechobee to address water storage issues. The $2.4 billion in state and federal funding would buy sugar land to create reservoirs to store and clean freshwater. “All the evidence that I see confirms what I’m here to announce today: We must buy land […]
From the OCEANA blog… Each year, visiting anglers spend about $41.3 million to catch the prized game fish that flit through Belize’s inshore waters. But the country’s sports fishing industry is in danger. A handful of local fishermen who deploy gillnets — a destructive form of netting that can kill animals from shrimp to whales — […]
These tips are based primarily on our research on bonefish, but can also be applied to tarpon, permit and other flats species. Fish Handling Minimize handling since this can remove protective slime from the fish. If you handle a fish, make sure you use clean, wet hands. Dry hands or hands covered in sunscreen are […]
BTT has been conducting a bonefish genetics study for several years now, which requires collecting as many bonefish fin clip samples as we can from all over Florida and the Caribbean. We often get asked why we are doing this. And while part of it is to broaden our knowledge of bonefish DNA and population connectivity for scientific […]
by Michael Adno Rushing toward the interior of the C-43 lock, adjacent to Lake Okeechobee’s Rim Canal, plumes of green and blue swirl on the surface then dissipate as nutrient sediment sinks to the bottom. Phosphorus gives the algae blooms plaguing the east coast their peculiar color. The water moving throughout the wide Rim Canal […]
The vast majority of people and tarpon tournaments in the U.S. nowadays practice catch and release only, with the main exception being a small number of people in pursuit of IGFA records. State-by-state regulations on the fishery range greatly from catch and release only in Florida (with a one per person, per year harvest with a […]
This past weekend, we received reports and photos of dead tarpon that had been spotted floating around Cat Island, a barrier island off the Gulf Coast that is under Mississippi’s jurisdiction. Fishermen Kyle Johnson and Troy Helwig spotted more than a dozen tarpon up to 80 pounds floating dead within a mile of Cat Island, […]
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