Bonefish & Tarpon Trust News

An interesting article on how Dr. Jerry Ault was able to use his tarpon satellite tagging research to help University of Miami colleague Nick Shay make more accurate hurricane forecasts. Shay was plotting the depth and location of the 26° C isotherm–a zone of warm water that meteorologists find useful since hurricanes are known to intensify […]

Herald writer Sue Cocking caught this BTT tagged bonefish while fishing at Deepwater Cay. Read the article she wrote about her experience at Deepwater and catching a tagged fish here: https://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/17/3693669/conservation-effort-helps-…

As many of you know by now, the Keys guides are having a tough time because of the National Parks closures, which has severely limited their ability to fish and make a living. This has widespread implications for the fishery as well as the livelihood of guides and other related industries. Please read this letter […]

Check out our article about our recent bonefish tagging trip on Abaco in the latest issue of This is Fly Magazine. A huge shout out to the hardworking guides who gave up their days off to help with the tagging. We could not do this important work without your support. https://www.thisisfly.com/issue43_4.html?startPage=66&

Because the tarpon fishery is primarily catch and release, it’s long been thought that there were few threats to the tarpon population. But as we have learned more about tarpon over the past 15 years, it’s become clear that we need to be concerned about their juvenile habitats. Juvenile tarpon require mangrove swamps and backwaters […]

From Keysnet: The city of Key West will not seek to pursue a study of how widening its main shipping channel in Key West Harbor to accommodate larger cruise ships would affect the city’s economy and environment. At stake was a $3 million study that would have been performed by the U.S. Army Corps of […]

September 25, 2013 On October 1, 2013, the voters of Key West will enter the polls to vote on a referendum that will decide whether to move forward with a program toward deepening and widening the Key West Harbor ship channel to allow larger cruise ships. As a non-profit, science-based, conservation organization dedicated to ensuring […]

Conservation Partners Bonefish & Tarpon Trust and Deep Water Cay collaborated for the 2013 fishing season on a bonefish tagging drive for Deep Water Cay lodge guests and BTT members which resulted in 570 bonefish being tagged by visiting anglers, BTT members, and guides. An extensive tagging program such […]