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BGIPOA and 5F sued over settlement agreement
Twenty five years of dispute seemed to have been put aside — at least for a day or so.
The ink was barely dry on an agr…
Studying tarpon with … balloons?
BY JACK SHORT
Scientists from the Florida Institute of Technology hope everyone fishing the pass next week won’t be alar…
Observers needed for World’s Richest
BY LEW HASTINGS
In case you were wondering what those beautiful tarpon posters all around town are, they are there to le…
Agreement between BGI and TSI reached
BY JACK SHORT
A court ordered mediation has resolved 25 years of…
A trip to Belize to study tarpon … are you in?
BY ADAM MARTON, THE FIELDWORKERS CLUB
This August a small group o…
Have some fun and help out a local captain by fishing the ‘Tito’
One of Boca Grande’s charter captains, Capt. Jimmy Robertson, is in need of some good energy and prayers from the community…
Another stranded sea turtle found on island beaches
Another dead sea turtle has been found on a local beach, this time at the very northern tip of the island.
According to…
Gasparilla Island Kids Classic field almost full
BY MARCY SHORTUSE
When you feed a kid a fish, they will eat for a day … or push it around on their plate, at least. Wh…
This Memorial Day, watch for manatees while on the boat
The Memorial Day weekend typically means crowded conditions on Florida waterways, and Save the Manatee Club cautions the bo…
A tale of two soldiers … Walter Tatko and John Bourgoin
BY JACK SHORT
To anyone who happened upon a scene in the kitchen of the Palmetto Inn recently, two men pouring over maps…