ROFFS™ Fishy Times Newsletter – 135th Edition – Updated Videos/Client Photos & Protected Bait

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Updated Videos on ROFFS™.com – Be Sure to Check Out the “Hot News” Button on the ROFFS™ Homepage

Ocean City Sunset Marina – 2016 White Marlin Open           We just couldn’t resist from sharing this video from @jim_rambo – the Marina is stacked full with boats from all over the eastern seaboard, all of which are searching for that money fish! Video Courtesy: @jim_rambo | Instagram Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Dolphin Snatches iPad!         OH MY… That moment a ?#?dolphin? snatches an iPad right out of a woman’s hands at SeaWorld Orlando. Video Courtesy: Fox 35 WOFL | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Kingfish Cleaner!             Check out this guy cleaning a fresh kingfish. Video Courtesy: How To Fishing | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Hand to Hand Combat with Grouper!           Mano y mano or hand to hand combat with big fish. Video Courtesy: Spear Channel | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Lobster Condo!             Lobster madness!!! What would you do if you saw this many lobster? Video Courtesy: Spear Channel | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Jeep Tow!            Watch out for flying bumpers!  Ouch!!! Video Courtesy: How To Fish | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Fishing Fanatic!             Super proud of myself. Doctors said no fishing until the week of Christmas yet months early I have worked out how to keep fishing and hook my personal best snapper. Video Courtesy: How To Fish | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Big Fish Down the Street!             Check out this guy carrying a monster down the middle of the street. Video Courtesy: How To Fishing | Facebook Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now!

Updated Client Photos 
Above: ROFFS™ clients on “That’s Right” and the ladies managed 2 White Marlin and several Dolphin during last weekend’s Heels and Reels Ladies Tournament. One Dolphin won the ladies $18,000!!! A 36lb Bull on a dink bait was the ticket! Great job ladies!
Please click HERE to our newly updated 2016 client photo gallery on our website now! NEWSCall them Bait. Call them Forage Species. In any Case, now they’re Protected.  Article Courtesy: pilotonline.com | By: Dave Mayfield | Originally Published: August 8, 2016

They’re known by names like greeneyes, pearlsides and halfbeaks, and they’re not marbles nor birds nor precious stones.

They’re fish – more specifically, forage fish, little guys that the big boys like tuna, marlins and whales gorge on out in the ocean.

You can just call them bait.

On Monday, a regional fisheries panel took a historic step to protect them – not just for their own good but for the good of the food chain in which they’re a vital link.

In a hotel conference room overlooking the ocean, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council adopted an amendment to safeguard more than 50 species of forage critters.

It’s the first East Coast panel and only the second of eight U.S. regional ocean councils to decide that creatures like sand lances, horned lanternfish and warty bobtail squids deserve a protection plan. The council that oversees the waters off California, Oregon and Washington paved the way with a similar action last year.

Monday’s decision was “a huge leap forward in fishery management,” said Joseph Gordon, who helps oversee ocean-related issues for The Pew Charitable Trusts.

“These little fish are the unsung heroes of the ocean,” Gordon said. “They’re what feeds everything, from seabirds to seals to whales to sharks. They’re the lifeblood of our Atlantic Ocean.”

Now, commercial fishermen in federal waters from New York to North Carolina can’t start targeting dozens of these lower-rung species in the ocean food frenzy without scientific evidence that it wouldn’t harm the larger ecosystem.

Above: Jay Hagan pulls bait from the fish he caught off the new pier furnished by the city of Suffolk at Sleepy Hole Park on Wednesday, March 30, 2016.  Photo Courtesy: Jason Hirschfield | Virginian-Pilot Please click HERE to read the full article on our website now! Backlash? Feedback?

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