Estrada Art Presents - Chaos: Fly Fishing for Bonefish & Tarpon

A film put together for the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Art Symposium 2014.

Project Permit SatelitteTagging

On April 7th, 2014 the first ever satellite tag was successfully placed on a Florida Keys permit. Costa's Project Permit is joint effort between Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and Costa Sunglasses to address data shortcomings specific to the permit species. 

Save the Date

Ever wonder why you don’t see schools of tiny bonefish on the flats?

                                     Can you see me now?

Recent research by Christopher Haak, a PhD student in Andy Danylchuk's Fish Ecology Lab at UMass Amherst (and funded by Bonefish and Tarpon Trust), may have finally answered this question. 

Juvenile bonefish (as small as an inch long!) may in fact be “hiding in plain sight”, mixing in among schools of similar-sized mojarras, whom they closely resemble when young.  With roughly 1 bonefish for every 50 mojarras, the odds are you won’t see the bonefish, and neither will their predators!  In the photo above, a 2-inch long bonefish (about 4 months old) feeds among mojarras.

$25K sought for flats fishing study

Photo:Will Benson

Bonefish Tarpon Trust is asking Monroe County to chip in $25,000 toward a study that would determine how much revenue flats fishing generates in the Florida Keys.

The study, which will cost $110,000 in total, will identify the number of flats anglers who fished the Keys in the 2011-12 fishing year, a summary states. It will also identify the number of days each angler fished and what species of fish was targeted. It will estimate the annual angler expenditure in the Keys and how much the angler added in wages, jobs and tax revenues.

LINK (via: Keys News)

Near Boca Grande this Week?

Join Bonefish & Tarpon Trust at the Gaspirilla Inn and Club in Boca Grande on Friday, February 3rd, for their 3rd annual tarpon fundraising event to raise awareness and funds for tarpon conservation and research.

Enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres while scientists update you on the tarpon tagging program and introduce the juvenile tarpon habitat initiative.  Silent auctions and raffles include lodge trips, guide trips, clothing, fishing gear and more.

LINK