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Famous Costa Rica Fishing Lodge Turns 20

Famous Fishing Lodge Turns 20 Happy Birthday to Crocodile Bay Resort, Costa Rica It seems like yesterday that I made my first visit to Puerto Jimenez. It was well over…

Costa Rica Sailfish Tagging
Young Biologist Studies Sailfish

Young biologist’s only sailfishing trophies are tissue samples The sailfish popped up in the spread lit up in an iridescent purple hue. This fish was hungry and vigorously slashed the…

New Director of INCOPESCA
FECOPs Director of Science Appointed to Head INCOPESCA

From Coastal Angler Magazine: Costa Rica Edition – FECOP’s Director of Science Appointed to Head INCOPESCA What is surely a loss for FECOP is a gain for Costa Rica. President…

Costa Rica Fishing Tarpon
Tarpon in Costa Rica’s Pacific Focus of New FECOP Study – Sport Fishing Magazine

Are Tarpon Breeding on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast? FECOP, a Costa Rica sport fishing advocacy and conservation organization, has announced an unprecedented study to unlock secrets of Atlantic tarpon now…

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…

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…

Fishermen Report More Tuna, Dolphin Along Pacific Coast

Fishermen report more tuna, dolphin along Pacific coast Fishermen along Costa Rica’s Pacific coastline are reporting an increase in tuna schools and dolphin pods. (Courtesy of FECOP) Fishermen and tourism…