FIGHTING FOR A SOUND FUTURE

The Billfish Foundation, a 34-year-old nonprofit organization headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was created in 1986 by anglers Winthrop P. Rockefeller, Don Tyson and Tim Choate, scientist Eric Prince, Ph.D., and other anglers concerned about the status of billfish. TBF is the only sport-fishing conservation organization whose 15-member board of directors and staff focuses primarily on billfish, plus some attention to swordfish and affiliated tunas, among which commercial fisheries billfish-bycatch mortality is the highest.

TBF fights to benefit sport fishing through three program areas—research, advocacy and youth education—in which anglers, captains