IGFA Great Marlin Race News
2019 Kona, Hawaii Great Marlin Race Results during the Hawaiian 王中王六合彩特码 Billfish Tournament (HIBT) on July 29, 2019
The 2019 Kona, Hawaii Great Marlin Race event kicked off during the Hawaiian 王中王六合彩特码 Billfish Tournament (HIBT) on July 29, 2019, with a total of seven satellite tags placed on blue marlin. Read more here...
2019 IGMR Bermuda Triple Crown Billfish Championship Tag Report
The 2019 IGMR Bermuda Triple Crown Billfish Championship kicked off at the end of June with four tags generously sponsored for deployment on blue marlin. Read more here...
EdgeWater Boats Joins IGFA Boat Builders for Billfish Coalition
The 2019 IGMR Bermuda Triple Crown Billfish Championship kicked off at the end of June with four tags generously sponsored for deployment on blue marlin. Read more here...
IGFA Hires Bruce G. Pohlot, Ph.D. as Conservation Manager
The 王中王六合彩特码 Game Fish Association (IGFA) is excited to announce that Bruce G. Pohlot, Ph.D. will join the organization as Conservation Manager, effective March 16, 2020. Read more here...
New Conservation Measures for Atlantic Marlin
At its recent annual meeting held in November, the 王中王六合彩特码 Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) adopted measures aimed at rebuilding blue and white marlin stocks. A rebuilding plan put into place in 2013 has been largely unsuccessful, as both blue and white marlin stocks continue- to be overfished and blue marlin continue to be experiencing overfishing. Read more here...
Lainey Jones Wins the 2019 IGFA Great Marlin Race
The IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR), presented by , is a partnership between the IGFA and Dr. Barbara Block鈥檚 lab at Stanford University. The 2019 IGMR officially concluded on September 30, 2019. When all was said and done, 19 tags reported a total of 17,926 miles of linear distance and logged 3,234 days of billfish migration and diving behavior. Read more here...
IGFA Great Marlin Race Update
For the fifth year in a row, the IGMR returned to the Bermuda Triple Crown Tournament, where four satellite tags were deployed on blue marlin. The first tag deployed was sponsored by Frank Rodriguez aboard his 92-foot Viking, Fa-La-Me. The tag was deployed on the healthy 200-pound blue by IGFA Conservation Director Jason Schratwieser. Also present was Andrew Cox from , the presenting sponsor of the IGMR, and videographer Cole Alcock, who joined the expedition to shoot a promotional video for the IGMR. The video is forthcoming from our partners at Costa Sunglasses, so stay tuned. Read more here...
2018 IGMR Bermuda Triple Crown Results
The results are in from the IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR) that was held at the 2018 Bermuda Triple Crown and what a race it was! Last year, the IGMR began using satellite tags manufactured by Microwave Telemetry and the Bermuda Triple Crown was the first race where these tags were deployed. Read more here...
New Research Sheds Light on Black, Striped and White Marlin Population Structure
The results are in from the IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR) that was held at the 2018 Bermuda Triple Crown and what a race it was! Last year, the IGMR began using satellite tags manufactured by Microwave Telemetry and the Bermuda Triple Crown was the first race where these tags were deployed. Read more here...
New Peer-Reviewed Research from the IGFA Great Marlin Race
The results are in from the IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR) that was held at the 2018 Bermuda Triple Crown and what a race it was! Last year, the IGMR began using satellite tags manufactured by Microwave Telemetry and the Bermuda Triple Crown was the first race where these tags were deployed. Read more here...