SEFSC - Recreational Billfish Survey
Recreational Billfish Survey     
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 About RBS program

Welcome to the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) Recreational Billfish Survey System (RBS) Home Page. The RBS is an application that has been collecting data on recreational billfish tournaments in the western North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and U.S. territories in the Caribbean since 1972. Subsequently, tournaments that take place in the Bahamas were als included.

The RBS is the primary source of U.S recreational billfish catch and effort statistics used to fullfil annual reporting requirements to both domentic and international agencies and is an important source of data for developing abundance indices and determining population trends of Atlantic billfish.

Federal regulations now require all Atlantic billfish tournaments to register with NOAA Fisheries each year and, "if selected", to resport their fishing results to the SEFSC after completion of the event. All billfish tournaments are selected for reporting. Tournaments are supplied with a registration and summary form (OMB # 0648-0323) designed to collect all the information necessary to meet NOAA's monitoring and reporting obligations.



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  RBS Data Manager -    Arietta Venizelos
  75 Virginia Beach Drive
  Miami, FL. 33149
  (305) 361-4214
 
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