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All At Sea

Chris Kennan

382 NE 191st St 

Unit 32381

Miami, FL 33179 

Website: Allatsea.net 

Office: (410) 929-2248

Email: publisher@allatsea.net

The Waterfront Magazine since 1993. Two Regional editions covering the Southeast of the US / Bahamas (Chesapeake Bay to Texas) and Caribbean/Latin America.  Boating / Cruising / Yachting / Sailing / Fishing.  Literally ALL at sea!

Atlas Engineering

Jim Strunk

8010 North Atlantic Blvd

Cape Canaveral, FL 32920

Website: Atlasengineeringco.com 

Office: (321) 799-0933

Email: atlas-engineering@sbcglobal.net 

Hydrographic surveying and marine construction.

Kelly Kronenberg

Robert Bamdas 

1475 Centrepark Boulevard 

Suite 275

West Palm Beach, Fl 33401

Website: Kelleykronenberg.com 

Office: (561) 684-5956

Email: rbamdas@kelleykronenberg.com 

Kelley Kronenberg's Admiralty Department offers a variety of legal services including litigation, regulatory compliance, transactional matters, mediations, and arbitrations. With offices adjacent to the Atlantic seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes, we are equipped to handle Maritime matters in the country's most active areas of marine-related commerce.   

Kennedy Yachts 

Dena Kennedy 

0853 Egret Pointe Lane
West Palm Beach, FL    33412 

Website: Kennedyyachts.com 

Office: (561) 762 2652
Email: Dena@KennedyYachts.com 

Yacht Brokerage headquartered in Palm Beach County

Professional Images of the Palm Beaches, Inc   

Julie Gray

1220 US Highway 1

Suite A

North Palm Beach, Fl 33408

Website: Palmbeachuniforms.com 

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Tournament aims to hook junior anglers

Thursday, June 5, 2014

By Dianna Smith

For the first time this summer, kids in Palm Beach and Martin counties can be rewarded for their fishing skills.

Whether it's a bass or even a catfish, the Loxahatchee River Environmental Center, aka the River Center, in Jupiter will count each exciting catch for its first Junior Angler Fishing Tournament, which started in mid-May and ends July 27.

The River Center, which is an extension of the Loxahatchee River District, focuses on educating the public about the habitats the district protects. The center's aquarium showcases all of them, including cypress trees and coral reef. It also gives visitors an idea of the different species in these waters by offering live aquatic tanks and a touch tank as well.

And this summer, the river center's goal is to encourage children ages 5 to 17 to spend time outside and learn how to fish so they can see for themselves the vast diversity of fish species in local waters.

The center already hosts fishing clinics that teach the basics of the sport, but this year community outreach coordinator and tournament creator, Nicole Sciandra, said she wanted to hold a fishing tournament as well because most of the local tournaments are only for children who can fish offshore. Not everyone has access to a boat, she said.

In this tournament, contestants can fish in salt water and in fresh water.

"Our intent is just to get people out on the Loxahatchee and in Florida waters in general. I wanted the kids who like to fish in their backyards to be able to participate just as much as the kids who are fishing in deep waters," Sciandra said.

Those who enter the contest must take a picture of each catch while wearing a River Center sticker on their shirts and then mail the pictures to the center, where Sciandra records them into a log.

Entering the contest costs $25 and the children can enter any time before July 27, which is great, she said, for those who are going on vacation or who might be in school during parts of the summer.

"If somebody wants to register the very last weekend of the tournament and they think they can still win it, then they can do that," she said.

The registration fee includes a fish fry on Aug. 2, where trophies and prizes will be awarded. Sciandra said that every child will take home some kind of award.

Sciandra is relying on the honor system when it comes to whether the child really caught the fish they have in their pictures, she said, also adding that catch-and-release is encouraged and there is a cap on the amount of fish per species caught.

Contestants get two points for every species they catch and one point for every individual fish they catch.

For more information or to register for the tournament, call the River Center at 561-743-7123.

http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/tournament-aims-to-hook-junior-anglers/ngC4R/ 

Chase N Tailz Fishing Tournament 

Chase N Tailz fishing tournament will be in memory of our son Chase Warren who passed away last year, at 10 months old. We are spreading awareness about an untreatable, incurable fatal disease that kills babies usually by age 2, Gaucher Type 2 (pronounced "go-shay").

We are local boater, kiteboarders and also sponor the boat parade and have a booth in the Palm Beach and Ft Lauderdale Boat shows for our company Canvas & Towers. We have been long time residents of Jupiter, Fl and can't speak highly enough of our local community.

The tournament is Sept 13, 2014 and Guanabanas is hosting the event. We will be advertising our sponsors via Facebook and our Website. All donations are tax deductible and we hope you will help us save children.

Gaucher Type 2 disease is a rare genetic disorder that is present in approximately 1 in 100,000 live births.  It occurs when a certain lipid, glucosylceramide, accumulates in the bone marrow, lungs, spleen, liver and the brain, causing damage to these organs.  Symptoms are severe brain damage, trouble breathing and swallowing, loss of muscle control, bone abnormalities, vision loss, hearing loss and death. Gaucher is now linked to Parkinsons Disease as well.

The National Gaucher Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing leadership, outreach and innovative thinking. They offer a wide range of programs and resources to meet the ever-increasing needs of individuals and families affected by this disease.  Our Federal Tax ID # is 52-1350226.

For more information, please visit www.gaucherdisease.org OR you may also contact us:

Summerkonkiel@hotmail.com

Phone:  561-201-7757

www.ChaseNtailz.com 

SPONSORSHIP AND INFORMATION

By Michelle Howard

Friday, June 06, 2014

Florida ranks second among all states in domestic maritime jobs, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the Transportation Institute and released by the American Maritime Partnership (AMP), the voice of the U.S. domestic maritime industry. Supported by the Jones Act, which ensures vessels operating in our domestic waterways are U.S.-built, U.S.-crewed and U.S.-owned, the state's 52,140 domestic maritime jobs pump more than $9.6 billion annually into the Florida economy and maritime worker income in the state totals more than $2.9 billion.    

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Project Seahorse teaches Riviera Beach kids to explore underwater 'backyard'

Sunday, June 22, 2014

By Joe Capozzi - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

It's a scene repeated every weekend at Phil Foster Park: Scuba divers emerge from the waters under the Blue Heron Boulevard bridge. As soon as they step on land, they're greeted by curious local kids.

"They see our gear and our cameras and they're asking, 'What did you see? What did you see?'' said Jim Abernethy, a local dive shop operator known as the "Shark Whisperer."

Divers usually let the kids peek through their camera viewfinders to see what Abernethy describes as "strange and beautiful creatures" living in the shallows beneath the bridge - seahorses, octopus, frog fish and colorful slugs called "nudibranchs.''

But the next question the kids will ask: Can I use your mask?

"You really can't give one of these little kids your mask because you don't know if they can swim. You feel terrible about it,'' Dan Volker said.

Abernethy and Volker decided it's time to let Riviera Beach and Lake Park children experience the magical underwater world that most have never seen - even though it's essentially in their backyards.

With help from Palm Beach County agencies and local businesses, they will host Project Seahorse, a youth outreach program aimed at helping economically-disadvantaged kids learn how to swim, snorkel and scuba dive.

The event takes place June 26 and 27 at Phil Foster Park - also known as Blue Heron Bridge Marine Park - and is limited to 48 Riviera Beach and Lake Park children recruited by the city and county from youth sports camps.

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Port's defense of dredging causes flareup at transportation meeting

Thursday, June 19, 2014 

By Joe Capozzi - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

The Port of Palm Beach expects the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers will re-submit a permit application for a controversial dredging project by the fall, a port official said Thursday.

"The port is going to move forward with this project because we create jobs, we're a supply line to the people who live in the Caribbean and we are an economic engine for Palm Beach County,'' Carl Baker, director of planning and development for the port, told a county transportation board.

Baker's presentation to the Palm Beach County Metropolitan Planning Organization's governing board sparked an immediate protest from an influential opponent of the $88.6-million dredging project - Palm Beach Mayor Gail Coniglio.

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Riviera Beach says scrap metal 

operation at port must stop

Friday, June 20, 2014 

By Susan Salisbury - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

A scrap metal processing operation at the Port of Palm Beach is in violation of city ordinances and must cease operations by June 30, Riviera Beach officials told the port this week.

In a June 16 letter to the port's executive director Manuel Almira, Riviera Beach City Manager Ruth Jones said that Stonerock Shipping Corp.'s scrap metal business is not allowed under the port's general industrial zoning designation.

Riviera Beach City Council Chair Pro Tempore Dawn Pardo said Friday that she recently brought the scrap metal pile to the attention of city staff and her council colleagues.

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Riviera Beach Tiki restaurant 

closing for marina redevelopment

Monday, June 23, 2014

By Linda Santacruz - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Tiki Waterfront Sea Grill in Riviera Beach is set to close on Sunday, July 6, to make way for a redevelopment project that is expected to transform the Riviera Beach marina over the next 10 years.

Ground was broken in April on the $375 million, 26-acre mixed-use development project.

Scott Evans, the director of planning and redevelopment for Riviera Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, said because of the demolition planned at the marina the outdoor restaurant must close.

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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife service releases a survey every five years of the nation's anglers, hunters and wildlife viewers. In 2012, 79% of fishing in the United States occurred on freshwater outside of the Great Lakes. Another 18% was on saltwater, and 3% on the Great Lakes themselves. Also released in that survey are the population of anglers in each state. 

Here are your top 10:

Florida weighs in as the overwhelming champion followed closely by Texas. Those two, considering their population and warm climates should come as no surprise, neither should the ring of top ten angling populations around the Great Lakes. However, California stands alone as the lone representative on the West Coast, which is especially curious due to fishing's popularity in the Pacific Northwest.

New York sliding into the top 3 may come as a surprise to some, but despite the reputation of the Big Apple, New York state is a picturesque fishing locale that is well-known for trout, perch and salmon.

The glaring omission of one of the nation's best fisheries-Alaska-is easily explained by the parameters of the survey. As of 2012, just over 700,000 people actually lived in Alaska. Even if they were all anglers, it wouldn't be enough to crack the top 10 here.

But perhaps the most curious entry into this U.S. Fish & Wildlife top ten list is North Carolina. Could the Old North State have knocked out a West Coast contender like Washington or Oregon?

In Florida, advocacy is making boating better

Join your local marine trade association! 

By Norm Schultz, June 17,2014

There might be no other state where boating groups are more engaged in efforts to secure the marine industry's future than in Florida, proving once again that our industry's marine trades associations do what individual dealers couldn't accomplish by themselves.

Here are three examples:

* The Marine Industries Association of Central Florida recently sounded the alarm that a Manatee Management Plan was being proposed for the waters of Pinellas County by the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. Pinellas County (which includes Clearwater and St. Petersburg) has the largest number of registered boats in the state.

MIACF executive director David Ray arranged for industry input during two critical review sessions held this month by the Local Rule Review Committee. What FWC was proposing in the name of manatee management would have resulted in more than 70 percent of the navigable waters in the county being idle or slow-speed zones. Moreover, it even included long stretches of the Gulf Coast Intercoastal Waterway.

Boating representatives clearly recognized the FWC was failing to view their proposed new manatee zones in the context of the many already existing slow-speed zones. After all, whether it's a slow zone for boating safety or manatee protection, the latter is accomplished.

The strong push-back from the boating representatives on the review committee resulted in elimination of more restrictions on the Intercoastal as well as maintaining large areas for skiing and water sports as well as fishing activities. Members representing boating on the review committee included: Mark LaPrade (Thunder Marine); Dave Travis (Bay Pines Marina); Doug Speeler (Speeler Companies); Bill Allbright (the Boating Public at large); Terri Skapik (Woods Consulting); and Dave Markett (Florida Fishing Guides Assn).

* Meanwhile, the National Marine Manufacturers Association has been vocal in recently concluded meetings of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Ecosystem Protection Working Group.

This group will recommend revisions or create new sanctuary management zones where boating and fishing could be limited or prohibited. NMMA manager of state government relations Michael Belitzky continued to oppose unsupported expansions of protected areas, overly-broad anchoring restrictions, unworkable "special permit" systems and unenforceable user fees.

"Responsible boaters, fishermen and businesses support well-considered, workable boating and fishing regulations that will promote environmental sustainability and protect important marine environments," he said, "Our goal is to protect the Florida Keys as a premier boating and fishing destination."

Thus far, the NMMA, in partnership with the American Sportfishing Association and the Florida chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association,has succeeded in protecting access for boating, fishing and other marine activities. Rule recommendations are expected this August.

* Finally, the Tampa Bay Division of the Southwest Florida Marine Industries Association has been pounding out a plan for the future development of the St. Petersburg downtown waterfront.

Led by J. Jopie Helsen (Sailor's Wharf), the group has already been recognized by the city's administration, appeared before city council and the county commissioners and briefed various local business groups on their efforts.

The exciting proposals being fine-tuned by the association's Tampa Bay team of more than 20 industry and stakeholder members include: building breakwaters to protect the downtown waterfront and its recreational harbors; expanding transient dockage in multiple locations including facilities for megayachts; creating areas for safe kayaking and paddlesports; redeveloping an under-used commercial port facility; expanding public access to the waterfront including fishing piers; creating a home-base for the tall ship Lynx; connecting it all with water taxis, among other ideas.

Ultimately, their waterfront plan will be rolled into a larger master plan currently being developed for the future of downtown St. Petersburg area.

If you're not a member of your applicable national or local marine trades association, you should be. The associations' work makes your business better and deserves your membership support. 

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