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U.S. – Comments Needed for HMS Amendment 8 – Swordfish
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is currently in the process of evaluating proposed amendments to the Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fisheries Management Plan. Draft...
View ArticleAustralia – Still A Chance for Anglers Opposing Marine Protected Areas
While many environmental groups are praising Australia and claiming victory, all is not said and done for the establishment of Australia’s National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas...
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Turks and Caicos – Detrimental Longline Study Set To Begin Soon
An agreement has been signed between the Turks & Caicos Islands (TCI) government, the south Florida based Day Boat Seafood (DBS) and Caicos Pride Products Ltd. to conduct a pilot study to assess...
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U.S. – Implementation Challenges for The Billfish Conservation Act
The Billfish Conservation Act (BCA) of 2012 was signed into law on October 5, 2012 creating a positive step for billfish conservation! The Billfish Conservation Act will prohibit the sale or the...
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Bermuda – Potential Marine Reserve Could Stop Fishing in The Blue Marlin Capital
The Billfish Foundation (TBF) wants to make sure anglers in Bermuda are aware of recent developments calling for a no-take marine reserve in Bermudian waters. Organizations such as the PEW...
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HMS Amendment 7 – Bluefin Tuna
Draft Amendment 7 to the 2006 Consolidated HMS Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for bluefin tuna was released in August of 2013 with possible alternatives for managing domestic bluefin tuna. The National...
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Extremism in Fisheries Must be Countered- Costa Rica
Just when you thought you heard every crazy idea, here comes another one! In Costa Rica, the nation to which 283,790 Americans traveled in 2008 to sportfish, which generated $599 million, or about 2%...
View ArticleAustralian Marine Reserves: Take Two
The Australian government is finally making due on their promise to reevaluate the proposed management plans for the country’s network of Commonwealth Marine Reserves. The initial management plans,...
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NOAA Unveils the First National Saltwater Recreational Fishing Policy
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) kept a promise made at the National Recreational Fishing Summit, February 2014, by its leader, Eileen Soebeck, Assistant Administrator in September 2014,...
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ACT NOW: Keep Australia Open for Fishing!
It has been more than four years since Australia began the process of designing and implementing its national system of marine reserves encompassing all of its federal waters. These reserves are...
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NMFS Meeting Announces Two Major Projects
Michael Kelly, Science & Policy Specialist represented The Billfish Foundation (TBF) on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Advisory Panel, which discussed...
View ArticleDiscussion Draft of Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management Policy
The NMFS recently released its Discussion Draft Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM) Policy to serve as guiding principles for the agency’s decision making over the long term. NOAA defines EBFM...
View ArticleRobust Debate & Marine Closures
This past June, Biscayne National Park released its new General Management Plan (GMP) to guide actions over the next 20 years in preserving and protecting the shallow water coral reef ecosystem (only...
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Our Florida Reefs – Anglers’ Angst
The three words “Our Florida Reefs” currently generate more angst with Florida anglers than most any others. The reason, fear that all fishing in large swaths of state waters that include reef habitat...
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IATTC 2016 Meeting
Peter Chaibongsai, representing TBF at a meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee to Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), an international organization with authority over highly migratory...
View ArticleBillfish Conservation Act Back on Capitol Hill
The Billfish Conservation Act, which was signed into law in October 2012 with the intent of prohibiting the sale of billfish or billfish products, has not yet been implemented by any regulatory agency...
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Spain Penalizes Its Anglers for Commercial Overfishing
Anglers from Spain are prohibited this year, as are their commercial fishing vessels, from landing Atlantic blue marlin because the nation’s commercial fishing vessels exceeded their 2015 blue marlin...
View ArticlePacific Fishery Management Council (FMC) meets this week
The FMC is accepting public comment on its consideration of harvest specifications under an Exempted Fishing Permit for highly migratory fish caught by longline vessels fishing within the U.S. West...
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