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Northeastern U.S. Above: Dr. Mitchell Roffer from ROFFS™ – Northeastern U.S. Ocean Conditions Update – August 15, 2017 Please click HERE to watch full video on our website now! Southeastern U.S. Above: Dr. Mitchell Roffer from ROFFS™ – Southeastern U.S. Ocean Conditions Update – August 15, 2017 Please click HERE to watch full video on our website now! Gulf of Mexico Above: Dr. Mitchell Roffer from ROFFS™ – Gulf of Mexico Ocean Conditions Update – August 15, 2017 Please click HERE to watch full video on our website now! Above: Congratulations to ROFFS™ Clients and their success in the Ocean City White Marlin Open (MD): 1st Place White Marlin Doug Bramble & Glen Frost (Wire Nut) (pictured above); 1st Place Top Boat & 1st Place Top Release Boat Rob Gothier & Jimmy Mulcahy (Bar South); 2nd Place White Marlin Michael Donohue (Griffin); 1st Place Tuna Alan Sadler & Joseph Sadler (Intents); 2nd Place Wahoo Seth Obetz (G-Force); 3rd Place Wahoo Jeremy Bendler & Jonathan Bennett (Karen Marie). Also: 1st Place Daily Point Winner Day 1 Rob Gothier & Jimmy Mulcahy (Bar South); 1st Place Daily Point Winner Day 5 James Foulke (Trust Me Too); 1st Place Daily Winner Tuna Day 1 Jim Stavola (Milling Around); 1st Place Daily Winner Tuna Day 5 & 4th Place Tuna Overall Brian Dwyer & Jared Brown (Slabjack); 1st Place Daily Wahoo Day 4 Seth Obetz (G-Force); 1st Place Daily Wahoo Day 5 Jonathan Bennett (Karen Marie). Please click HERE for our latest list of winners on our website now! Mid Atlantic 500 Anglers: ROFFS™ is ready to put you on the winning fish in 2017 like last years winner: 1st Place Heaviest White Marlin Eric Metcalf & James Smith (MJOLNIR) (pictured below). Call (321-723-5759), email (fish7@roffs.com) or use our VIP link:  https://roffs.com/vip-analysis-request-form-midatlantic/ Mitchell A. Roffer’s Testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation oversight hearing “Threats Facing Florida’s Tourism Driven Economy,” for Thursday, August 10, 2017 at the University of South Florida.

I am Mitchell A. Roffer, President of Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service Inc., and Adjunct Faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering and Sciences. I received my Doctorate from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Biological Oceanography. ROFFS™ provides a variety of consulting services to the recreational and commercial fishing industries, as well as, to the oil and gas industry, ocean towing industry, environmental consulting organizations, as well as, to academic and government organizations. I am actively involved in ocean research with a variety of collaborators from academia, the government sector and non-governmental organizations. I was a member of NASA’s Ecological and Biodiversity Science team for 11 years. Thus, I am in constant contact with a broad range of people who conduct business in Florida, as well as, fish in Florida in addition to those visitors who travel to Florida to fish and use the water.

When people visit Florida as tourists and when Floridians get up each morning they assume that the air and water will be clean and that the waters will provide an abundance of marine life whether it be fish, marine mammals like dolphins and manatees, turtles, or birds. Over the years Florida has had sufficient clean air, clean water and healthy marine life to support good fisheries and fantastic tourism. The National Marine Manufacturers Association estimated that the total annual economic impact of recreational boating in Florida is $10.35 Billion. Recreational boating provides for approximately 83K jobs in 5.5K businesses.

Above: Dr. Roffer with Senator Nelson and other speakers after Roffer’s testimony at the US Senate subcommittee hearing on the threats to Florida’s tourism economy today in St. Petersburg, FL. Roffer talked about clean water and healthy ecosystems as being the basis for Florida’s economy. Please click HERE to read Dr. Roffer’s full testimony on our website now! Live Squid to Sashimi!                   Cutting squid from alive to sashimi at Hakodate Fish Market. From alive to sashimi in 3 minutes – this is real craftsmanship! Video Courtesy: ahbtsang | YouTube Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Funny Boat Crashes and Fails!                                       Video Courtesy: Chris Hughes | YouTube Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! 17ft Sawfish!                                    In this episode of BlacktipH, Josh hooks a gigantic sawfish that measured over 17ft in length and had an estimated weight of over 700lbs. This is the rarest species of fish that Josh has ever caught! This episode was filmed with Chew On This, LunkersTV, Jon B, and APBassing. Sawfish are listed as critically endangered, please follow the steps below if you ever hook one. Video Courtesy: BlacktipH |YouTube Please click HERE to watch the video on our website now! Backlash? Feedback?

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