New Kayak Tee From GreenFish for the Holidays! - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

SGV Rookie · 12-04-2010, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by bgodber

Thanks for the feedback guys!

SGV Rookie - to answer your question: Right now GreenFish is a VERY small startup company, so our ability to impact MLPA is not very big. Instead - we have selected a handful of partners, such as United Anglers, who are fighting the good fight for us anglers. Through our GreenFish Gives program, every time someone buys gear on our site, they can select one of our partners to donate a portion of the proceeds to (we give up 10-20% of our margin for this and it goes directly to our partners).

This allows us to focus our efforts on building our brand / business while financially supporting these organizations who are fighting for our rights!

thanks for your support
Bryan Godber - GreenFish

Thanks For your response Bryan. I'm willing to support organizations like yours especially if its for the kids and their future. Please keep us up to date on anything your organization is doing, I would love to see some local tackle shop seminars or something to learn more about Greenfish. Just Catch and release is one thing, but sustainable fisheries? I just want to learn more (Just read The Secret Life of Lobsters).
Dave

SGV Rookie · 12-04-2010, 08:08 AM

What is Greenfish's opinion on Thresher Sharks? Babys, Breeders, etc

bgodber · 12-04-2010, 09:44 AM

Threshers - one of the ultimate challenges on a yak - good stuff but of course we are concerned about long term sustainability of the population as the sport is gaining in popularity. In general we would prefer each angler to take no more than one shark per year -and release everything else and always only keep what you will consume. We reccommend using circle hooks when trolling bait (plug for our new "Circle Hook" Tee!). Also it is good practice to allow for a drop back after a strike when trolling- which is usually by the tail. This will increase your chances of getting a mouth hooked fish which of course improves chances of a release.

Dont keep babies, not really cool and definitely not sustainable. Everyone has their own opinion, but I would say maybe anything under 150Lb should be released. This is the best thing we can do to protect the species - release babies.

We would also like to see all females released in case they are a breeder. Thats a perfect world - but you asked!

One of our non-profit partners is the PIER Institute and they are doing a lot of research on T-sharks, which is why we like to financially support them. http://www.greenfishmovement.com/Scripts/partners.asp. Check out some of their research when you can.

Also - we have Conway Bowman on our Ambassador team who fishes daily for local Makos on a fly (awesome stuff), plus of course Sammons and Jeff Krieger who all have good opinions on this topic also http://www.greenfishmovement.com/scr...mbassadors.asp

Good idea on some local seminars - we'd like to work with some of our Ambassadors on this also.

12-04-2010, 08:08 AM	#2
SGV Rookie Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: San Gabriel Valley Posts: 89	I have to do it What is Greenfish's opinion on Thresher Sharks? Babys, Breeders, etc

12-04-2010, 09:44 AM	#3
bgodber Junior Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: San Clemente, CA Posts: 11	Threshers Threshers - one of the ultimate challenges on a yak - good stuff but of course we are concerned about long term sustainability of the population as the sport is gaining in popularity. In general we would prefer each angler to take no more than one shark per year -and release everything else and always only keep what you will consume. We reccommend using circle hooks when trolling bait (plug for our new "Circle Hook" Tee!). Also it is good practice to allow for a drop back after a strike when trolling- which is usually by the tail. This will increase your chances of getting a mouth hooked fish which of course improves chances of a release. Dont keep babies, not really cool and definitely not sustainable. Everyone has their own opinion, but I would say maybe anything under 150Lb should be released. This is the best thing we can do to protect the species - release babies. We would also like to see all females released in case they are a breeder. Thats a perfect world - but you asked! One of our non-profit partners is the PIER Institute and they are doing a lot of research on T-sharks, which is why we like to financially support them. http://www.greenfishmovement.com/Scripts/partners.asp. Check out some of their research when you can. Also - we have Conway Bowman on our Ambassador team who fishes daily for local Makos on a fly (awesome stuff), plus of course Sammons and Jeff Krieger who all have good opinions on this topic also http://www.greenfishmovement.com/scr...mbassadors.asp Good idea on some local seminars - we'd like to work with some of our Ambassadors on this also.