#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.), #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. Today, we are excited to continue our campaign to raise funds to support the Dolphinfish Research Program (DRP) in 2020. This past year was a banner year for the DRP, where the program to date has logged 2,157 releases from 143 vessels off 10 states and 8 countries. Additionally, we recruited 148 new taggers to the program and published the first near-real time online map to showcase DRP angler participation, tagging activity, and annual results. A total of 52 recaptures were logged and 11 satellite tags were deployed throughout the western central Atlantic and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean in 2020. We also continued our expansion to Panama (Tropic Star Lodge) where very little is known about the movements and population dynamics of dolphinfish. In a few weeks, we will report our 2019 results (click here for a graphical overview). Today, we continue our campaign to raise $10,000 to support the DRP in 2020, enough money to assemble and distribute 300 free tagging kits, further educate and engage youth anglers and scouts, maintain our online DRP tagging progress map, as well as deploy more satellite tags on adult dolphinfish in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean in 2020. These funds are critical in order to expand our citizen science approach to conserve wild dolphinfish, improve the health of pelagic food webs, reveal new discoveries about the species, and ensure ocean conservation for generations to come. Help us continue this critical citizen science research program in 2020 by giving today. Click here to donate!
The Beyond Our Shores Foundation (BOSF) manages the Dolphinfish Research Program, and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (IRC), so contributions made to BOSF to support the DRP may be tax-deductible. After donating, a receipt will be sent by email and mail. Please keep these receipts for your records. Beyond Our Shores, Inc., Tax ID number is: 82-1392155
