ROFFS™ Fishy Times Newsletter – 145th Edition – Updated Videos/Client Photos & Norfolk Canyon Could be Next National Marine Sanctuary

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Great White!               

Great White breaks into dive cage while diver is still in there!!! Video Courtesy: Surfing Magazine | Facebook
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Costa Rican FAD Life!            

This is how much life there is on a single ILLEGAL floating FAD put out by Tuna Purse Seiners off of Costa Rica. We have found several of these over the last 2 years. Video Courtesy: Fish Tank Sportfishing | Facebook
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Filet Master!           

Tuna filet master. Video Courtesy: How To Fishing | Facebook
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How to Rig a Pitched Mackerel Bait!                

Tyler Beckford of Teasers Bait Company showing us how to rig a pitch bait mackerel with Fly Navarro. Video Courtesy: Fly Zone Fishing | Facebook
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Dog Vs. Fish!                

Golden Retriever swims with the fish! Video Courtesy: Communauté Universelle | Facebook
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Feeding the Eagles!              

Some People Feed Pigeons But In Dutch Harbor Alaska – They Feed Eagles!  Video Courtesy: Homestead Survival | Facebook
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Updated Client Photos 

Above: ROFFS™ client Steve Spagnuola with a tuna and mahi haul from October 2016.

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Out in the Atlantic, a Canyon named Norfolk could be America’s Next National Marine Sanctuary
Article Courtesy: pilotonline.com | By: Dave Mayfield | Originally Published: October 14, 2016

About 70 miles out in the Atlantic, a canyon begins. Down steep, craggy walls draped with corals it descends some 6,000 feet, a bridge between the continental shelf and the deep, deep ocean. Creatures move in swarms so thick along stretches of this oasis that cameras simply can’t peek through.

Yes, the Norfolk Canyon is grand.

Grand enough, some admirers say, that it should be given special status as a national marine sanctuary.

For more than a year, the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center has been developing a case for making the canyon part of the sanctuary system. It has company: The National Aquarium in Baltimore and the New York Aquarium are working on nominations for ocean canyons off their states as well.

“These are incredibly special places, amazing places,” said Mark Swingle, the Virginia Aquarium’s director of research and conservation.

The Atlantic canyons, of which there are more than 50, large and small, are “biological hot spots,” he said. They’re havens, feeding grounds and nurseries for thousands of species of creatures, from worms burrowing in the deepest sediments to whales breaching on the choppy surface.

Swingle is leading the push for the Norfolk Canyon, the southernmost of the big ones. He said the Beach City Council will be asked soon to adopt a resolution of support, after which a nomination will be filed before year’s end with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

If NOAA deems the canyon worthy of consideration, an environmental impact statement would be required and public hearings scheduled.


Above: A sand tiger shark swims through the Norfolk Canyon exhibit at the Virginia Aquarium in October 2016. Photo Courtesy: Stephen M. Katz | The Virginian-Pilot

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