Free Fishing Oceanography Seminar Beaufort January 12 at 7pm

[tunadoctor]

TOPIC: USE OF OCEANOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TO IMPROVE CATCH RATES

WHO: MITCHELL A. ROFFER, PH.D., PRESIDENT OF ROFFS™
WHEN: THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 2012 AT 7:00 PM (SOCIAL HOUR AT 6:00PM)
WHERE: RADIO ISLAND MARINA, BEAUFORT, NC

Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc. (ROFFS™) and Radio Island Marina of Beaufort, NC (Bill and Jane Newbern) are inviting you and your fishing friends and family to an evening seminar. Dr. Mitchell A Roffer (Ph.D.), President will be presenting an informal talk on how you can easily use fisheries oceanographic information to improve your catch rates. This is not a ROFFS™ infomercial, but a science talk reviewing aspects on how fish are influenced by the formation, condition, and location of their preferred habitats. Such topics as availability, vulnerability and catchability, in terms of water temperature, salinity, density, dissolved oxygen, clarity/turbidity, color and bottom structure will be considered. He will discuss which aspects of the preferred habitats are most important in the waters off North Carolina for tuna, marlin, kingfish, wahoo, and dolphin.

The preferred habitat and catchability concepts will be linked to different strategies and tactics that anglers should take advantage of to increase their catch rates. Roffer will explain how ocean convergence zones and their stability is critical in forming concentrations of baitfish and finding concentrations of feeding fish. The importance of understanding local and regional ocean circulation and water mass boundaries will be stressed. Differences in the direction of rotation of eddy features and fish catchability will be part of the seminar. He will provide a critical review of some of the more common techniques that are presently being used to search for productive fishing grounds by local area fishermen, as well as, by others using social networks, satellites, other oceanographic data and models.

The audience will be shown how they can find and use satellite data to understand the water circulation to improve their catch rates. Roffer will highlight the techniques needed to accomplish this, as well as, the challenges and limitations when using satellite data along with the common errors when trying to interpret the imagery. He will also review some of the satellite fisheries oceanographic research and operational work that he have been involved with at ROFFS™, NASA and NOAA, Office of Homeland Security (including search and rescue), and various state and federal environmental protection agencies (hazardous materials monitoring).

Roffer, the founder of ROFFS™, has a doctorate (biological oceanography – fisheries oceanography) from the renowned University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. He was selected again (8th year) to be on the prestigious, international NASA Earth Science’s Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Science Team and participates as part of the NASA Ocean Color and Sea Surface Temperature Science Teams. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Southeast United States Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA), the Products and Services Committee of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (GCOOS), and is Chairman of the Florida COOS Consortium. Roffer is an Adjunct Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Marine and Environmental Systems in Melbourne, FL.

There will be a social hour starting at 6:00 PM and a question and answer period at the end of the 60-75 minute seminar. RSVP not required, but we suggest you arrive before the 7:00 PM start of the seminar as seating is limited. The Radio Island Marina is located on 156 Radio Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 which is south of Route 70 (Arendell St) just east of Morehead City, NC. There is no
charge for this informative seminar. Some cold refreshments will be provided.

[mvfish]

PLEASE bring this seminar to the NE

[tunadoctor]

PLEASE bring this seminar to the NE

Would love to. Where do you suggest?

[CaptainAlex]

Send a PM to myself or MVFish (a buddy) with your contact info and we'll get the ball rolling!!