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A couple of months back, the Club Amateur de Pesca held their 31st Annual International Sailfish Tournament. Teams from the U.S., Panama, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica competed, and all together they released 155 sailfish. Top team honors went to Nick Carullo and Tim and Stephanie Choate from Miami, while Ernesto Vasquez from Puerto Rico was named top individual angler. My favorite woman angler from Costa Rica, Tia Nora Schofield, who at 80-something is still fighting marlin and sails standing up, also competed this year and finished well ahead of many other anglers.
What made this year’s event different was that the Club de Pesca sponsored the attendance of the Central America Billfish Association (CABA) and Dr. Nelson Ehrhardt from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. CABA and Ehrhardt introduced new tools for studying billfish. Ehrhardt has been studying billfish populations in Central America for many years and his science was a key factor in convincing the Costa Rican government to stop exporting sailfish in December of 2009.
The crowd listened intently as Ehrhardt, who was assisted by a couple of technicians from CLS America (a company that specializes in satellite based environmental data collection and location), introduced the “Satellite Logbook.” The system collects information logged by the crew during the course of a day’s fishing and sends it in real time to a database at the University of Miami.
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