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 News Update for the Bahamas Billfish Championship

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Full Docket for Treasure Cay

 

We're half way through the 2013 Bahamas Billfish Championship. It's still a wide-open quest for the BBC title and the three top contenders are fishing the Treasure Cay Championship. Pandemonium, Makin' Reel Memories, Rum Bum and Cowpoke are registered. 

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In addition to four action-packed days of fishing, a full calendar of social events and activities are planned for the week. 

Tuesday evening, there's the Party Hardy Tomorrow is Lay Day cocktails and dinner at Bahama Beach Club.

Lay day activities start with a BBC 'Best Ball' Golf Tournament. Then at 5:00 there will be crab races and a 'Pot Luck' dinner featuring barbecued ribs and chicken prepared by Capt Chuck Harris (Island Time) over an open charcoal fire.

At 8:00 we head to the Coco Beach Bar for a Colton James Acoustic ConcertThrough his music, Colton James, the 'Saltwater Cowboy,' promotes the responsible enjoyment of our oceans. Colton is a fisherman. He is as passionate about enjoying the ocean as he is about protecting it, sharing it and learning about it. During the Treasure Cay Championship, Colton will be a participating angler aboard the 63 Bertram Sharkbait.

The Colton James Acoustic Concert takes place at 8:00 PM, May 29th at Treasure Cay's Coco Beach Bar. The concert is open to the public and is being sponsored by Bank of America and Bertram.


Click here to see the complete Schedule of Events

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More Ways to Keep Score

 

The Bahamas Billfish Championship App for your Android device is available in the Google Play Store. And in the Apple App Store, there is an update for the BBC App for iPhones BBC App and iPads. Both are free downloads.

BBC Apps are an easy way to stay up to date with the fishing and overall standings for the BBC series. Along with receiving each tournament score update on the website, you can now get live updates on the tournaments and the overall series standings right on your mobile device.

Get notifications on your favorite teams when a score is posted for them! The BBC App technology makes it easy to access live standings and real-time scoring on Apple and Android devices regardless whether you're out fishing or for the folks back home that want to know how your team is doing.

Don't have a Smartphone or Tablet? Keep up with the live action via your computer and web browser. Click here to visit the BBC scores and standings at Reel Time Apps.

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Dolphinfish Research Newsletter
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 Weight at Length Relation in Dolphin

The last issue of this newsletter highlighted the need for length-weight-sex data on dolphinfish from the entire western North Atlantic. Tag recoveries from this study have linked the dolphin found in the Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean to the fish found off the U.S. East Coast. To get a comprehensive understanding of the dolphin stock, information needs to be assembled from throughout its range, one of the goals of the DRP.

A big step toward this goal was taken in 2012, when the Marine Resources Division of the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources provided DRP a copy of their data on dolphinfish's length, weight and sex for the years of 2011 and 2012. This file contained usable information on more than 1,800 dolphin caught by recreational anglers on this Caribbean island.

 

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