Three consultant positions open, job and contact info in the attached flyers.
To Our South Florida Guides and Anglers, FWC has alerted us that they will present the Draft Rule for barracuda to the FWC Commission at the Commission meeting June 22-23, in Apalachicola. Barracuda will be addressed on Thursday, June 23. If the Draft Rule is accepted by the Commissioners, the Final Rule will be voted on at the FWC Commission meeting […]
This July 1- August 31, BTT will be holding its Summer Fin Clip Challenge in South Florida! Photo: Rick DePaiva Awesome prizes will be awarded to the top three bonefish fin-clippers, and anyone who collects three or more fin clips will receive a BTT trucker hat. Fly or conventional tackle can be used. In the […]
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Tom with guide Dex Rolle in Exuma. Photo: Dan Decibel Tom Karrow is gathering up guide stories, histories and knowledge all for a pretty cool project that is being funded by BTT. Bjorn from Bonefish on the Brain interviewed him and asked him to share some information about this project and to lend some of his insights gained […]
The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT), has donated $5,500 in proceeds from its George Hommell Jr. Florida Keys Habitat Fundraiser to the Guides Trust Foundation, a Florida Keys-based organization dedicated to helping those connected with the Florida Keys fishing industry to recover from injury and illness. The check was presented to Captain Duane Baker, the […]
In partnership with UMass Amherst and Carleton University, BTT has officially launched The Atlantic Tarpon Acoustic Tagging Project by tagging its first two fish in the Lower Florida Keys! Two acoustic tags were placed in tarpon this week by BTT contributing scientists Lucas Griffin from UMass Amherst and Jake Brownscombe from Carleton University. These data on Atlantic […]
BTT has been working with lodges and guides in the Bahamas as part of our ongoing efforts to identify bonefish spawning locations, and to better understand pre-spawning and spawning behaviors and requirements. We rely on guides and lodges to contact us when they see possible spawning, and their help has been instrumental to our work. BTT has […]
Longtime BTT sponsor The Palometa Club hosted the 4th Annual Palometa Club Permit Tournament April 1-8, an annual event with lead sponsor Hatch Reels to benefit the Jon Ain Fund at Bonefish & Tarpon Trust as well as the schoolchildren of Punta Allen, Mexico. The event raised over $6000 in charitable proceeds from the entry fees, calcutta, […]
Worldwide, loss of juvenile habitat is one of the greatest threats to tarpon populations as a whole. In fact, the loss and degradation of juvenile habitats is a major reason that a recent International Union for the Conservation of Nature scientific assessment classified the tarpon population as “vulnerable.” This is why Bonefish & Tarpon Trust launched […]
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