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Official Letter of Congratulations to Dive Bimini’s "Name That Boat" Contest Winner
1 Nov 201010:37 PM
Letter of congratulations to Karen Bond, winner of the Dive Bimini “Name That Boat” contest, from Guy Harvey and Neal Watson:
Karen’s submission, Bimini Blue, won out over several hundred entries. Congrats, Karen and enjoy your trip to the Bimini Big Game Club!
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To all our Outpost Customers,
Never have I seen the sea as rough, or winds as strong, as we now are experiencing in our expedition together. We are a team, and together our ship will get through this storm. Many a small ship has crossed a stormy ocean, and we will as well.
We’re almost to the edge of this storm. The resolve, teamwork and positive outlook of our Outpost crew has kept our resorts and company on course as we make way to clear skies and calm waters.
As a friend of ours on this now unpleasant journey, please keep yourself safe as we push on, so once arrived we can all celebrate together our passage.
I am certain calm seas and fair winds await us. For now, please help all of those in need to stand before the winds. Thank you for everything you do, all day, every day.
Stay strong,
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![](mailto:?subject=Guy’s Lionfish Safari, Guy Harvey Outpost St. Pete Beach&body= Sept 6 Lionfish Spearfishing Tournament, Sept 7 Tournament Weigh-In & Family Fun Day
<a href="http://www.guyharveyoutpost.com/">Guy Harvey Outpost</a>, along with Reef Monitoring, Inc. and the Fishing Rights Alliance, is hosting a Lionfish Safari in an effort to collect as many of the invasive fish as possible for research and educate the public on the threat the species poses to reef environments. The event is open to the public.
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September 6 - Lionfish Safari: All registered divers will depart from their place of choice to complete the mission of hunting and capturing as many lionfish as possible. All captured lionfish must be kept on ice and surrendered at the Guy Harvey Outpost the following day. Each registrant will receive a guide to surrounding reefs that contain lionfish, a tournament t-shirt, meal ticket and access to the weigh-in and Family Fun Day on Sept. 7. There will be cash prizes including largest and smallest lionfish and Guy Harvey raffle items and giveaways.
To register for the Lionfish safari, visit <a href="http://www.guyslionfishsafari.com/">www.GuysLionfishSafari.com</a>. Deadline to register is Sat., August 30. Cost is $20 per person. All lionfish will be used for research and food tastings, and proceeds go to Reef Monitoring, a non-profit dedicated to organizing marine scientists and educators as a means of watching over natural and artificial reef systems. <a href="http://www.reefmonitoring.org/">www.reefmonitoring.org</a>.
September 7 - Participants and their families will be encouraged to enjoy a day of family fun at Guy Harvey Outpost after the weigh-in between 11a.m. - 12:30 p.m. All fish will be weighed and measured by Reef Monitoring and then passed to along to students and NOAA biologist Alex Fogg for dissection and food preparation. During this process, the group will explain the anatomy of these fish and why they are so harmful to other species in the Gulf waters. Then the lionfish fillets will be passed along to the chef station where they will be cooked and prepared for the tasting station.
Other family-centric activities will include kid-friendly lionfish education from Ocean Pals, live music, a beachside cookout, drink specials, and beach games. At 2:30 p.m. the tournament winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded.
Open to the public.
Location: Guy Harvey Outpost – a TradeWinds Beach Resort– Beach front: 6000 Gulf Boulevard, St. Pete Beach
Cost: Admission is complimentary.
Parking: Parking for participants will be complimentary; $20 for all others. Parking will be available at the Guy Harvey Outpost and at the neighboring Island Grand.
More Information & Special Room Rates:
For additional information and special tournament room rates, please visit www.GuysLionfishSafari.com or call (727) 259.7404.
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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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