The Gulf of Mexico offshore of southwest Florida is well known for its calm sea conditions and excellent year round deepsea fishing. Venice, Florida, located just south of Sarasota, Florida, and directly on the Gulf of Mexico is the perfect take-off point to access and enjoy this awesome deep sea fishing. Depending on the fishing season, you will catch all sorts of different species of fish while fishing offshore of Venice, Florida aboard our deep sea fishing charter fishing boat.
The Gulf of Mexico offshore of southwest Florida is well known for its calm sea conditions and excellent year round deepsea fishing. Venice, Florida, located just south of Sarasota, Florida, and directly on the Gulf of Mexico is the perfect take-off point to access and enjoy this awesome deep sea fishing. Depending on the fishing season, you will catch all sorts of different species of fish while fishing offshore of Venice, Florida aboard our deep sea fishing charter fishing boat.
deep sea fishingThe 2005 Bunny Clark fishing season ended after the last trip on November 13th. This trip was a marathon trip where we managed to bump into a school of larger than normal hake, found a school medium to large sized pollock that bit like crazy and ended on a cod spot for a fish a cast, a great trip to say the least. The only thing missing was the large number of Maine state trophy sized fish that I wanted to catch. Of the landings that day, only one fish was large enough to be deemed a Maine state trophy, the fish shown on the right, a white hake of 32 pounds. The lucky (or skilled) angler shown with the fish there actually caught this fish himself that day, contrary to popular opinion. This angler is none other than that nimrod of Bunny Clark renown, our own Keith Borkowski (ME). Keith has prided himself on being aboard for the last trip for six or seven times in a row. On two of those trips, he landed trophy fish large enough to be shown on this cover or index page of my web site. This years fish was his third cover fish. This hake is a tie for the eighth largest hake of the season and the largest white hake (a tie, actually) that Keith has ever caught. His other two cover fish were a 30 pound Maine state trophy pollock (caught on the last trip of November 2001) and a 53 pound Maine state trophy cod (caught on the last trip November of 2002). During the years between those until now, Keith spent too much time whinning about his reel to concentrate on landing a big fish during the last trip. This season, his equipment up to snuff, he was able to focus the way he should have focused before. At any rate, the hake shown is a wonderful fish (my favorite of the groundfish species available to us) and certainly a worthy fish to be shown to the world. Congratulations, Keith! You deserve it. Special fish like Keith's are the kind of fish we like to see caught on the Bunny Clark .
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SEATTLE - At a AAAS press briefing on Sunday at 1:00 PM, marine scientists will release a consensus statement from over a thousand of the world's foremost biologists, calling for governments and the United Nations to protect imperiled deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems. The statement will be released concurrently at the 7th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; in Santiago, Chile; and in Madrid, Spain. Speakers at the AAAS briefing in Seattle will be Drs. Elliott Norse, Martin Willison, Daniel Pauly and Lance Morgan.
This historic proclamation - signed by 1,136 scientists from 69 countries, more than any other concerning a specific marine environmental issue - signifies unprecedented concern by experts in marine sciences and conservation biology. Scientists have recently discovered forests of gorgonian corals and reefs of stony corals at scattered locations in cold and deep ocean waters around the world. Some corals resemble "trees" up to 10 meters tall; others form dense thickets. Hundreds or thousands of species live in these cold-water coral forests and reefs, leading scientists to call them the "rainforests of the deep." But even before scientists can find them, deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems are being destroyed by commercial fishing, especially bottom trawling.
Trawls are huge nets armed with steel weights or heavy rollers. Deep-sea fishing vessels drag them across the seafloor to catch species such as shrimp, cod, orange roughy, armorhead, grenadier and Chilean seabass. Trawls smash corals and sponges and rip them from the seafloor.
"It's ironic that billions are being spent searching for water that might once have supported life on Mars while we're destroying the dazzling diversity of life in waters here on Earth," said Dr. Elliott A. Norse, President of Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Redmond WA. "About 98 percent of the oceans' species live in, on or just above the seafloor. Many of them - including ancient deep-sea corals and sponges - haven't even been discovered yet." Dr. Norse was an author of the Scientists' Statement.
