The San Diego Sportfishing Council has just released the dates for the 11th Annual IGFA Young Angler’s Tournament. The tournament is schedule for August 3 and will be held at the Shelter Island Pier (1776 Shelter Island Drive). Tournament registration will begin at 7:30 am and fishing starts at 8:30 am. Lines out will be […]
Audubon Aquarium of the Americas on the New Orleans riverfront opened a new exhibit yesterday called Geaux Fish! The interactive exhibit offers visitors a hands-on opportunity to learn about Louisiana’s fishing industry. The exhibit provides information about Louisiana’s recreational fishing, commercial fishing, and seafood industries including their effect on local ecosystems and their importance to local […]
Based on a twelve-month study and review of petitions and documents, the National Marine Fisheries Service has declined to list the northern pacific population of white sharks as an endangered or threatened species. Responding to a petition filed by WildEarth Guardians on June 20, 2012, NMFS found the northeastern Pacific population of white sharks to […]
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This past February, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission set the 2013 gag grouper season and regulations. Recreational fishermen can harvest gag grouper in Gulf state waters (excluding Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor and Monroe) from July 1, 2013 through December 3, 2013. The season will close December 4, 2013. Anglers can keep 1 gag per harvester […]
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Donnell Tate of the Lahaina News in Lahaina Maui, Hawaii has posted a great story about about 14-year-old Hunter Smith landing a 421.5 blue marlin. The fish is the second largest taken this year by the Lahaina fleet. Smith was fishing with his dad Allen Smith and Captains Dan Shaffer and Rich Lynn aboard the […]
A number of news sources around the country are reporting a story out of Pacifica, California, that a shark bit a kayak yesterday. According to police reports, the man paddling the yak was unharmed (no news yet as to the damage the yak sustained). Pacifica Police Captain Joe Spanheimer has been quoted as reporting that […]
The Sun Sentinel reports today of a great swordfish catch out of Lighthouse Point Marina in South Florida. According to the Sentinel, anglers Mark Francis and Doug Norwick headed offshore with just one rod and just one bait to find swordfish. They came back with a 395-pound swordfish. The Sentinel quotes Francis as recounting, “We […]
A new National Weather Service study reports that more people die from lightening strikes in the U.S. while fishing than while engaging in other activities. The report studied 238 lightening-induced deaths in the U.S. from 2006 to 2012. The report shows that the majority of lightening strike deaths (152 of 238) occurred during leisure activities. […]
Rhode Island’s Black Sea Bass Season opened last week, and Saltwater Nation anglers are letting us know that the bite is on. Remember, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has adjusted the regulations for black sea bass this year. The summer season will remain open until August 31, 2013, but keep in mind that […]
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National Geographic News Watch has posted a great story today by Shannon Cosentino-Roush about the tuna trap fishery in Sardinia, Italy. Cosentino-Roush‘s article–which we are hoping foreshadows a full National Geographic essay or television special–is a compelling historical look at tuna trapping methods in three Sardinian villages. FISH ON!
FIS Worldnews, the news service of Fish Information & Services, a global seafood industry information service, posted two reports this week about bluefin tuna that should interest anglers from across the Saltwater Nation. First, FIS reports that scientists from the oceanographic centers in Malaga, Spain; Gijon, Spain; and the Balearic Islands, Spain, all members of […]
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Richard Moore of CBS affiliate Action News 4 in the Texas Rio Grande Valley posted a story today about fisheries management in southern Texas. According to Moore, Texas Parks and Wildlife Biologist Dr. Scott Walker released about 80,000 trout fingerling and 250,000 red drum fingerling into the Lower Laguna Madre at Port Mansfield. Texas has […]
The Fiji Times Online is reporting today that Chinese tuna boat operators are targeting sharks as a primary fishery. Speaking with Kaiafa Ledua, a Fijian who worked aboard a Chinese tuna boat for six years. According to Ledua, fishermen would receive triple pay for each shark they brought in compared with the payment for a […]
It looks like The Weather Channel has caught the saltwater bug. The Weather Channel’s web site recently posted three saltwater angling videos. One features Richard Stanczyk of Bud & Mary’s fame teaching The Weather Channels’ Reynolds Wolf a few things about tarpon fishing. Another features a Sport Fishing Television video about Pacific sailfishing offshore Guatemala […]
The 3rd Annual West End Snapper Fishing Tournament and Festival, will take place this Saturday, June 22, 2013 in West End Grand Bahama. This year’s tournament and festival theme is “Celebrating the Fishing Legacy of a Community Over Forty-years.” The tournament is designed to display West End resident’s hand line fishing skills as well as […]
Check out this 61-pound wahoo that angler Doug Richard landed this week IN HIS KAYAK. According to the Sun Sentinel, Richards hooked the wahoo on 20-lb test and fought the fish for over an hour. The wahoo dragged him from Dania Beach to Ft. Lauderdale Beach. Richard was fishing from his kayak in about 380 […]
Saltwater Nation anglers from Virginia are reporting some great cobia fishing. Large schools of big fish are being reported moving from southern waters off of North Carolina’s Outer Banks up to Virginia Beach waters. Fish over 50 pounds are being taken in the area of Bluefish Rock. Anglers have been locating big cobia in open […]
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BlacktipH Fishing posted this video to YouTube a couple of weeks ago, but we’re just now seeing it in circulation. It’s pretty incredible. As you’ll see, it features six-year-old angler “Reed” locked on to a sizable silver king. According to Reed, the tarpon weights “a hundred pounds!” According to BlacktipH, Reed was using a 7/0 […]
Gary Kirk, a 49-year-old brick layer from Gorleston in the U.K. was on holiday in Madeira recently when he hooked and landed a massive 800-pound blue marlin. Fishing out of Calheta Harbour on the South West coast of the Portuguese archipelago, Kirk fought the fish for just over an an hour and a half before […]
A few days ago photojournalist Alistair McGlashan was marlin fishing in Australia when he and his crew brought a nice blue marlin to the boat. McGlashan jumped into photograph the blue when a 660-pound mako came swimming by and started feeding on the marlin. Check out McGlashan’s Youtube video linked above and posted on YouTube […]