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Gray FishTag Recovers a Satellite Tag off the Coast in Costa Rica

Roosterfish recovered with SatelliteTag in Costa Rica By: GFR-JM Category: Fisheries, General News, Gray FishTag Recoveries, Marine Research, Press Releases INCREDIBLE STORY!!!! FRIENDS…  last week we had a Satellite Tag recovered in Costa Rica. Talk about a…

Baseball Legend, All-Star Fisherman: Wade Boggs in Costa Rica

Wade Boggs with a Costa Rican snook. (Todd Staley / The Tico Times I have never been inside a NFL locker room, but I can image what it sounds like.…

Fishing as an Olympic Sport?

Fishing as an Olympic Sport? Recreational groups meet at Pan-American Delegation to discuss sport being added to Olympics and Pan-American Games By Devin Golden January 8, 2018 Could sport fishing…

Sustainable Fishing News: Green Sticking in Costa Rica

Green sticking or “palo verde” as it is known in Spanish is not a new form of fishing in Costa Rica. It has been used successfully for years in Japan…

Costa Rica Marine Protected Area
Costa Rica Fishing Groups Reject Proposed Marine Reserve

Eight sport-fishing associations and two fishing clubs represented by FECOP, the sport-fishing advocacy group in Costa Rica, voted unanimously against the Alvaro Ulgalde Marine Reserve even though its promoters claim…

FECOP to Represent Costa Rica in Panamerican Sportfishing Delegation

Sportfishing groups from the United States, Mexico and several Latin American countries met in Cancun, Mexico in November for the inaugural assembly of the Panamerican Sportfishing Delegation. The purpose of…

Why I sometimes hate conservation – or, the ‘dolphin breeding ground’ debacle
Why I sometimes hate conservation – or, the Dolphin Breeding Ground Debacle

Costa Rica’s Dolphin Breeding Ground Debacle dolphins deserve our protection, an ongoing petition regarding a new development is misleading, according to the author Todd Staley This fisherman is about to…

Catching and Tagging Roosterfish by Todd Staley

Catching Roosterfish in a Washing Maching Catching and Tagging Roosterfish with Gray Fish-Tag by Todd Staley I have never enjoyed fishing under pressure. I prefer to fish for fun. There…

2017 Beach Clean Up

World’s Ocean Day 2017 – FECOP organized beach clean-ups in Golfito, Puerto Jimenez, Quepos and several other coastal towns. Join FECOP now to learn how you can help protect Costa…

Costa Rica Dolphins
Explaining Sport Fishing to a Non Angler

Reader Not Fond of ‘Torturing Fish’ — But Sport Fishing isn’t the Problem By Todd Staley, Published for The Tico Times – I wrote for the Tico Times years ago…