About
Although I have weighed many granders, I was one of the first individuals within the industry to consciously catch and release granders.
My conservation role began in 1992 as a lead Big Game Fishing ecologist and Billfish Foundation champion of tag & release. I was sincerely committed to the agreements made when fishing with Captains Gene Vanderhoek and Kevin Nakamaru when vowing to tag and release ALL of the Pacific Blue Marlin caught onboard the new 39’ Rybovich: SEA GENIE II, a historic first for the Kona fleet led by Gene; as well as being one of the first individuals to advocate Don Tyson’s Billfish Foundation tags in Kona and distributed these tags throughout the Great Barrier Reef fleet while fishing Australia onboard the new 46’ Assegai Marine: ASSEGAI.
