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Beach Property Sale to Benefit BTT
BTT has recently accepted a generous offer to to receive $30,000 to fund research, the funds to be available upon sale of a Kamalame Cay beach property. Kamalame Cay is a private island located off the coast of Andros Island, Bahamas. For sale on the island is a half acre property with 150 beach front feet. Five percent of the sale price will be donated to Bonefish & Tarpon Trust.
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Could the BP Gulf Oil Spill Put Tarpon on the Endangered Species List?
The Fly Fishing Examiner discusses the gaps in tarpon knowledge and the research BTT is conducting to fill these gaps prior to the oil impact. Read the full article. |
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Fly Fishing Film Tour Event
Last month Orlando Outfitters and Hell's Bay Boatworks held a Fly Fishing Film Tour showing to raise funds and awareness for BTT. Thanks to their hard work, the event raised over $1400 and generated 19 new members. View the Orlando Outfitters and Hell's Bay Boatworks websites for upcoming events. |
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Bonefish Census Yields Positive Results
With completion of the April 2010 Annual Bonefish Census in the Florida Keys, bonefish populations seem to have increased from previous years. Although, we are still not sure how the unusually prolonged cold temperatures in January have impacted juvenile bonefish. Read the full article. |
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Gulf Oil Spill Monitoring: There's an App for That
A new application for the iPhone, MoGO (Mobile Gulf Observatory), allows users to submit photos and locations of oil spill wildlife impacts along the Gulf of Mexico. Developed by Dr. Andy Danylchuk and his team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the app is able to track photos of tar balls or oiled wildlife using GPS and reviewers will compile the information in a database. Click here to learn more or download. |
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Taking Up the Tarpon Cause
BloodKnot online magazine featured an article written by a BTT Board Member on the importance of fishery research as well as BTT's efforts to study and maintain the tarpon fishery. Read the article (pgs. 44-53). |
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Florida Fishing Report Following Oil Spill
Online fishing blog GoFISHn describes the possible effects of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico following the oil spill. Dr. Aaron Adams, Direction of Operations for BTT, contributes depictions of all potential life stages that could be affected and how that might impact the overall fisheries. Read the full article. |
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How to Help With Oil Spill Crisis
There is understandable growing anger and a feeling of helplessness about the ongoing oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico. It has heightened awareness of the lack of information on many Gulf of Mexico fisheries, chief among them tarpon. In response to the question - "how will the oil spill impact tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico?" - we have to honestly respond "We don't know".
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Senator Nelson Addresses Tarpon in Gulf to Congress
In his Gulf of Mexico Fisheries report to Congress on June 28, Senator Nelson discussed the urgent need to research the tarpon fishery before it is impacted by the oil spill. In order to accurately assess future data, there must be a baseline for measure that does not include impacts of a habitat disturbance. Read the full Congressional Record. |
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Keeping Tabs on Tarpon
The location of tarpon spawning is still somewhat of a mystery to marine scientists and wildlife managers. A fundraiser hosted by Boca Grande Outfitters and BTT at the Gasparilla Inn in Boca Grande allowed BTT to raise enough funds to deploy 10 Pop-up Archival Transmitting (PAT) tags near Boca Grande - 5 specificially to track spawning. Read the article of the first tag deployed. |
