Date: October 3 - 4, 2008
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Mote Marine Laboratory
1600 Ken Thompson Parkway
Sarasota, FL 34236
Contact: Nathan Brennan, Ph.D.
Phone: (941) 302-1824
Email: nbrennan@mote.org
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Captain’s Meeting
The Captain’s Meeting will be held at Mote Marine Laboratory in the Jean P. Hendry Conference Room at the Ann & Alfred Goldstien Marine Mammal Research & Rehabilitation Center Building at 6:00 p.m. Friday, October 3, 2008.
Prizes & Awards
Prizes will be awarded at the Snook Shindig BBQ on Saturday, October 4th. Participants will enjoy door prizes, raffles and give-a-ways at the BBQ. Prizes will be awarded based on our point system in the following categories
Overall 1st, 2nd, & 3rd
Ladies 1st, 2nd, & 3rd
Kids 1st, 2nd, & 3rd (age 15 and under)
Fishing Hours
Fishing hours are limited to “lines in the water” no earlier than 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 3rd, after check-in at the Captain’s Meeting. Catches will be processed by taking the snook to weigh-in stations with the related angler ID number and log sheet. Weigh-in stations will be open from Friday, October 3rd at 7:30 p.m. until 12:00 p.m. noon on October 4, 2008. Fish must be taken to a weigh-in station prior to that time to be eligible for the tournament.
Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Fisheries Enhancement will be hosting the 10th Annual William R. Mote Memorial Invitational Snook Shindig, a scientific catch, sample and release tournament targeting tagged snook released by Mote’s Stock Enhancement Program.
The event will be at Mote Marine Laboratory on City Island. We are asking for your support and participation of this event, as proceeds will benefit the Center’s Stock Enhancement Program. This program, developed in partnership with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is aimed at developing responsible and effective marine stock enhancement technologies to restore depleted marine fish populations.
As a participant in the William R. Mote Memorial Invitational research tournament you will help Mote Marine Lab continue its world-renowned research, education and conservation programs. Only effective research can provide the knowledge needed to properly support, protect, and replenish these fish stocks and the coastal ecosystems they depend on.
