Upcoming Meetings

Thursday, December 12th, 2024 at 6:00 pm at Haddad’s Ocean Café!

Haddad’s Ocean Café is located 291 Ocean St, Marshfield, MA

Bigger and better prizes than any year!!!  Join us for our annual meeting, guest speaker and unbelievable prizes.

Guest Speaker David Richardson

The Slope Sea, Spawning Bluefin Tuna Research Scheduled for 2025

You are cordially invited to our annual Holiday Bash at Haddad Ocean Café that includes our friends from the Cape Cod Charter Boat Association and as we look forward to David Richardson’s presentation on “The Slope Sea, Spawning Bluefin Tuna Research Scheduled for 2025″.

 

David Richardson, Oceans and Climate Branch, NEFSC/NMFS/NOAA will discuss Atlantic bluefin tuna were historically thought to have only two spawning grounds, one in the Mediterranean Sea and the other in the Gulf of Mexico. About a decade ago, we presented clear evidence that bluefin tuna were also spawning in the Slope Sea, an area between the Gulf Stream and
the northeast United States Continental Shelf. In this talk, he will provide an update on recent bluefin tuna research, including evidence that spawning occurs over an even more widespread area of the Atlantic.

David will also discuss a number of planned projects for 2025. In June of 2025 we will undertake the first longline survey to the Slope Sea in over 50 years. We also plan to sample fish eggs and larvae in a previously unsampled area off the Carolinas to evaluate whether this area is an additional bluefin tuna spawning ground. Finally, a major sampling effort for larval bluefin tuna will occur in the Slope Sea in 2025.

These samples will be compared using genetic techniques to samples from the fishery and samples from other spawning grounds. The rates and patterns with which parent-offspring and sibling matches occur in these genetic comparisons will provide information on the size of the bluefin tuna population, the connections among spawning grounds, as well as many other important life history traits.

 
 
EVENT TICKETS  – There will be buffet dinner that doesn’t include the cash bar 

 

 

2024 Holiday Bash tickets sales are open.

We have a cap of 150 seats for the event, please purchase your tickets as soon as possible.  The website and an email will announce when we are approaching our seating limit.

 
 
RAFFLE & PRIZES – Our former President and Trustee Charlie Wade of Impact Impressions will have SBCBA Shirts & Mugs for sale at the door. Thanks to the effort of John Bunar, SBCBA BODs and other members our raffle prizes are bigger and better than ever, see below.
Capt. John Bunar, Duxbury Bait & Tackle

 

Mike Batta, Alliance Sports Group

 

 
 
 
 
 
Mike Delzingo
 
 
 

 

Brian Curreri, Scituate Boat Works

Brian Curreri, Monahan’s Marine

Dan Parma

 

Carl Abissi

 

 

 


Capt Mike Pierdinock

Capt. Brian Curry

RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP 2025

Our annual elections are conducted at this meeting as well as membership renewal, please go to the following link to the renew your membership

(Captain $65/head, mates $35/head) http://www.stellwagenbank.org/

 

Our former President and Trustee Charlie Wade of Impact Impressions will have SBCBA Shirts & Mugs for sale at the door. 

 
Any questions, please reach out.
 
Thanks
 

Capt. Mike Pierdinock

SBCBA President

 

We will be sending out reminders as we near closer to the day of meeting. If you would like to become a member or renew your membership, please visit this page to pay via credit card or PayPal.