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Bonefish & Tarpon Journal: Fall 2024

The Fall 2024 issue of Bonefish & Tarpon Journal is now available to read online. Receive a year-long subscription to the Journal when you support BTT with an annual membership.
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Here are some of the stories you’ll find inside:

The Future of Tarpon
Monte Burke
New insights from the Tarpon Isotope Study and the Tarpon Acoustic Tagging Project will inform conservation on a regional scale as the mysteries of tarpon migration are revealed.

The Spinning Fish Phenomenon
Alexandra Marvar
After troubling reports of spinning fish in the Florida Keys surfaced in late 2023, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust and partners sprang into action.

In the Salt
Peter Kaminsky
Author and angler Thomas McGuane has left his mark on American literature and fly-fishing while championing flats fishery conservation.

Long Live the King
T. Edward Nickens
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust is working to ensure a sustainable future for Southwest Florida’s tarpon fishery through science-based habitat restoration.

Mapping Bahamas Permit Spawning Areas
Sue Cocking
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust begins work in The Bahamas to locate and ultimately conserve permit spawning sites.

Tarpon Fishery Assessment Report
Mike Conner
A survey of nearly 1,000 anglers and guides has revealed how the Atlantic tarpon fishery of today compares to that of the 1970s.

Mechanical Harvesting Programs Target Invasive Vegetation
Kris Millgate
Florida’s Brevard County is using mechanical harvesting to combat invasive aquatic vegetation instead of harmful weedkiller.

Q & A with Conservation Captain Jeovani Ortega
Ambergris Caye, San Pedro, Belize

BTT Partners with Tampa Bay Waterkeeper
Chris Hunt
A grant from Bonefish & Tarpon Trust to Tampa Bay Waterkeeper will support a comprehensive water-quality monitoring effort to search out and target the sources of pollution in Tampa Bay, the largest estuary in Florida.