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Guy Harvey Ts star in New Movie About Marine Conservation
8 Nov 20106:35 PM
Last night Capt. Ned Stone, Director of Program Development for Guy Harvey Outpost Ltd., attended the premier of Beneath the Blue at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival. The movie, starring Caitlin Wachs, David Keith (Officer and a Gentleman, Lone Star) and Paul Wesley (Vampire Diaries), tells the story of a dolphin research scientist and his daughter who are on a quest to protect dolphins in the Bahamas.
In addition to the important message of protecting sea life, we are big fans of this movie because star David Keith was wearing Guy Harvey T-shirts in three major scenes!
It seems even Hollywood knows the power of the Guy Harvey brand and Guy’s message of marine conservation! Stay tuned, the company behind the movie has plans for a sequel and possibly a TV series. For more information, visit the Beneath the Blue web site.
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In addition to the important message of protecting sea life, we are big fans of this movie because star David Keith was wearing Guy Harvey T-shirts in three major scenes!
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It seems even Hollywood knows the power of the Guy Harvey brand and Guy's message of marine conservation! Stay tuned, the company behind the movie has plans for a sequel and possibly a TV series. For more information, visit the <a title="Beneath the Blue web site" href="http://beneaththeblue.quantumreleasing.com/" target="_blank">Beneath the Blue</a> web site. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/guy-harvey-ts-star-in-new-movie-about-marine-conservation/){kind=link}
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Artist Bobby Little’s Burning Marlin sculpture at <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/">Guy Harvey Outpost’s</a> Bimini Beach Bash Bonfire & Tournament. Above, Duncan Brake’s photograph captures the marlin in full furry. The event marked Guy Harvey Outpost’s return to Bimini after two years of growth around Florida, the Bahamas and Beyond. <a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/destinations/bahamas/bimini-bahamas/bimini-sands-bimini.html">Bimini Sands Resort & Marina, a Guy Harvey Outpost Expedition Lodge</a> hosted the three day event.
Barefoot skydivers from Island Extreme Adventures kicked things off, landing on the beach in front of the Infinity Pool. There was scuba diving with the legendary Neal Watson, fabulous food and ace fishermen. Captain Bouncer Smith, recently honored at the IGFA as a “Legendary Captain,” and young Victor Bermudez the event’s Top Angler teamed up to take top honors in the fishing tournament.
Stay tuned for more photos and details or check the latest on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuyHarveyOutpost">Outpost Facebook page</a>.
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 believe the specimen came from a swordfish. Genetic testing will be done to confirm the identification.
“Experts on site and remotely have viewed and analyzed the eye, and based on its color, size and structure, along with the presence of bone around it, we believe the eye came from a swordfish,” said Joan Herrera, curator of collections at the FWC’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg. “Based on straight-line cuts visible around the eye, we believe it was removed by a fisherman and discarded.”
The approximately softball-size eye was recovered by a citizen in Pompano Beach on Wednesday. FWC staff received the eye later that day. Swordfish are commonly fished in the Florida Straits offshore of south Florida at this time of year.
A highly migratory fish, swordfish can be found from the surface to as deep as 2,000 feet. Swordfish in the Atlantic can reach a maximum size of over 1,100 pounds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Swordfish feed on a wide variety of fish and invertebrates.
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mysteryeye11.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1478" title="Mystery Eyeball" alt="" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mysteryeye11.jpg" height="366" width="550" /></a>The mystery eyeball that washed up on a South Florida beach...
<a href="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sword12.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1479" title="Swordfish" alt="" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sword12.jpg" height="440" width="550" /></a>...and a close-up of a swordfish eye. Mystery solved?
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![](mailto:?subject=Save Billfish by Closing Loophole&body=<img class=" size-medium wp-image-3282 alignleft" src="https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/602.jpg?w=300" alt="602" width="300" height="222" />By Sue Cocking, Guy Harvey Outpost staff writer
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Bill Shedd-- president of AFTCO Manufacturing Co., and a principal in Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts--was asked last year by Marlin magazine what would be the single most important change we could make to current management policy in 2016 to benefit billfish stocks.
His answer: for NOAA Fisheries to get on with finalizing its promised rulemaking on the Billfish Conservation Act signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2012. The law bans importation and sale of billfish (marlin, sailfish and spearfish) into the continental U.S., but still allows traditional fisheries within the Hawaiian Islands and Pacific territories. More than three years after the law was adopted, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service has yet to propose rules to implement it.
According to Shedd: "The law intended that the Hawaiian exemption allow only for traditional harvest and consumption within the islands, and that billfish should not be allowed to be shipped from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. A ruling from NOAA Fisheries is needed to close a possible loophole and prevent possible cheating of billfish caught in other parts of the world being shipped through Hawaii and labeled as caught in Hawaii."
"This clarification would not only protect billfish stocks in Hawaii, but in other parts of the world as well," Shedd added. "The U.S. has been the world's largest market for billfish. The Billfish Conservation Act was passed to prevent billfish importation into the U.S. by removing economic incentive in other countries to catch billfish and export them to the U.S. Allowing the Billfish Conservation Act to proceed as intended will have a huge positive impact on billfish stocks."
Some knowledgeable observers say the delay in implementation may have to do with tasking bureaucrats at NMFS to draft what may turn out to be trade regulations rather than fisheries regulations--not normally their purview even though the agency is under the Department of Commerce.
But of one thing Shedd and other fisheries conservationists are adamant: no billfish, whether from the U.S. or foreign countries, may be sold in the continental U.S.
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoors adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women's world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit.
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The following commentary was written by Doug Olander, Editor-in-Chief of <a title="SFM web site" href="http://www.sportfishingmag.com" target="_blank">Sport Fishing</a> magazine. The article appeared as Doug's editorial column in SF's April 2012 issue.
Let me cut to the chase:
1. If I never see another billfish or shark hanging dead for bragging rights and glory photos, it will be too soon.
2. I absolutely, unequivocally see nothing wrong with keeping a shark to eat — preferably a shark of modest size, taken aboard a boat to be shared among anglers and crew.
Too many anglers want to jump to the conclusion that a statement like No. 1 must come from a PC fish hugger who thinks no angler should ever keep any fish. Far from it.
But that sort of thinking seems to be the basis of comments left by an angry fisherman both on <a title="SF's Facebook Page" href="http://www.facebook.com/SportFishing" target="_blank">SF’s Facebook Page</a> and <a title="SF web site" href="http://www.sportfishingmag.com/" target="_blank">web site</a> after reading a Quick Bites news item in February on the <a title="SFMI web site" href="http://www.sharkfreemarinas.com/" target="_blank">Shark Free Marina Initiative</a>.
The reader is upset that the item cites as good news four species of sharks added to Florida’s prohibited-species list. Then he asks, “Why do you feel that the prevention of offloading a legally caught species is a good thing?”
I would ask a different question: Why does anyone need to kill sharks such as hammerheads and tigers, whether legal or not? They’re not food fish, so what’s the point of killing them?
Beyond that, even if killing a big shark for the glory of a snapshot in your smartphone is legal, does that make it right?
A <a title="Rosie O'Donnell shark story" href="http://www.eonline.com/news/rosie_odonnells_dead_hammerhead_shark/285827" target="_blank">news item about Rosie O’Donnell, shark slayer</a>, resurfaced recently, proudly posted on the website of her skipper. Based in Miami Beach, he’s made a reputation for killing sharks (and as long as he could get away with it, anything else including sailfish). Included was a photo of a dead hammerhead (killed long before it was illegal to do so), swinging from a crane as Rosie and her small children smiled for the cameras.
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I think hanging up dead sharks in a marina is wrong, but more important, I think doing so is just plain stupid. It’s a point I’ve made before and sadly, probably will have to again: Anglers and captains like Rosie’s do nothing but damage the image of our sport, and hurt you, me and all real sport fishermen. A nonfishing public, seeing dead sharks gathering flies at a dock, more easily accepts a distorted reality where sport fishermen are pigs with no respect for the resource.
And this comes at the very time more and more green groups would be happy to see all recreational fishing banned. Do we need to help their cause? If the purpose of those who agree with Rosie and her skipper is to put further restrictions on our sport, they’re doing a bang-up job.
That doesn’t mean I think no shark should ever be killed (see No. 2 above). A smaller mako or common thresher, neither of which is considered overfished, can be shared by anglers and crew for meals (with no need to leave ’em hanging dead at the dock). A blacktip can offer inshore anglers some fair filets. I’ve even sampled the common bonnethead and found it pretty tasty.
And yes, even across the board, the recreational take of sharks has to be a small fraction of those killed commercially. But the public seldom sees that carnage, versus one shark left to hang at the sport docks. No wonder many of the powerful environmental groups clamoring to close off the ocean no longer try to make any distinction between commercial and sport fishing.
It’s because of skippers like Rosie’s that I join <a title="Guy Harvey Inc. web site" href="http://www.guyharvey.com" target="_blank">Guy Harvey</a> in supporting the Shark Free Marinas Initiative — to avoid just such repulsive photo-op scenes.
The fact that the <a title="Humane Society web site" href="http://www.humanesociety.org/" target="_blank">Humane Society</a> and <a title="Pew web site" href="http://www.pewenvironment.org/" target="_blank">Pew</a> support the initiative doesn’t automatically make it bad for recreational fishing. That said, I’ve come to the point where it makes me uncomfortable to be on the same side of any issue with Pew.
But in this case, the mind-set and actions of Rosie and her captain just don’t leave me much choice.
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