A Letter to the Editor by Captain Steve Friedman, a founding board member of Florida Bay Forever, recently appeared in FL Keys News. (photo: Nick Roberts)
HELP SAVE FLORIDA’S EVERGLADES AND ESTUARIES! BTT will join with other conservation groups and concerned citizens in Tallahassee on April 11 to make our collective voices heard. Together we will meet with legislators from our districts and from all parts of Florida. Our elected officials need to hear from ALL of us–Captains. Fishing Guides. Anglers. […]
photo: Nick Roberts The Senate Appropriations Committee’s vote this week represents progress in the effort to secure water storage south of Lake Okeechobee. Click here to read today’s editorial in the Sun Sentinel.
(photo: Marcos Furer) “Thomas McGuane writes better about fishing than anyone else in the history of mankind.” –Jim Harrison Yesterday, in New York City, the American Museum of Fly Fishing, located in Manchester, Vermont, honored influential author and BTT Honorary Trustee Thomas McGuane with its 2017 Heritage Award. Guests of the event were treated to […]
BTT scientists recently traveled to Mangrove Cay, Andros to work with the guides at the Mangrove Cay Club to tag bonefish and look for bonefish pre-spawning aggregation sites. The first day of the trip greeted the team with sunny skies and calm seas, allowing the team to cover a lot of ground and tag over […]
Gink & Gasoline recently published an important and timely piece by Sandy Moret, a member of the BTT Board of Directors and a founding partner of the Now or Neverglades Declaration. Visit BTT.org/FixOurWater to sign the Now or Neverglades Declaration and to voice your support for Senate Bill 10 and House Bill 761, which will allow […]
The Balance, a new film from Orvis about the ongoing water crisis in Florida and the ways it is negatively impacting our fisheries, underscores the urgent need for Everglades restoration. Please take immediate action to fix Florida’s water crisis by urging your representatives to pass SB 10 and HB 761, which will allow for the […]
Bonefish Conservation and Restoration Program Jon Shenker, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology Paul Wills, Ph.D., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida Atlantic University Though the Florida Keys are still a world-class fishing destination, the decline of the region’s bonefish population over the past decades is a tremendous concern to anglers, fishing guides, scientists […]
Ghost Stories: How Guides in the Bahamas are Providing Valuable Insight into Their Fishery Tom Karrow, a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo and a Research Fellow at the University of the Bahamas, has been interviewing fishing guides on Bimini, Grand Bahama, Abaco, Exuma and Andros as part of a BTT project to record their knowledge and […]
Ocean Portal recently published a great piece about seagrasses, which support commercial and recreational fisheries, provide cover for many species, clean the surrounding water, and help pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Due to the benefits they offer, seagrasses are believed to be the third most valuable ecosystem in the world, second only to estuaries and wetlands. One hectare of […]
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