The Offshore category covers fishing catches, products and news. Primarily, offshore fishing (or deep sea fishing) is defined as any type of fishing done more than 9 miles from the shore line.
When you’re deep sea fishing, you’re usually pretty far from land…roughly 20-30 miles out, in waters that are hundreds or even thousands of feet deep. Hence the name “deep sea fishing.”
Shelikof Strait, in the Gulf of Alaska, is an important spawning area for walleye pollock, the target of the largest—and one of the most valuable—fisheries in the nation. This year, a team of NOAA Fisheries […]
New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood throughout its body much like mammals and birds, giving it a competitive advantage in […]
Highly invasive lionfish are encountered regularly by divers and spear fishermen, but angler Jason Jones caught this potential All-Tackle record red lionfish (Preroris volitans) on a rod and reel while fishing off Biloxi, Mississippi, USA […]
Strike up another win for permit conservation! Thanks to the diligent efforts of a group of 10 anglers from the Washington, DC area, BTT just sent a 21 pound permit swimming away carrying a small […]
Using only 2 kg (4 lb) line, Linda McKenzie skillfully played this potential world records snapper (squirefish) (Pagrus auratus) for nearly an hour before she finally landed the 9.22 kg (20 lb 5 oz) fish. […]
Somewhere off the Atlantic coast of Florida, a fishing boat bobs in the swell, and Nate Bacheler helps swing a fish trap over the side. It’s a big metal cage shaped like a giant arrowhead, […]
NOAA Fisheries is providing notice of the immediate effect of regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). The commercial IFQ halibut season opened Saturday, March 14, 2015. At its annual meeting in January, the […]
North Carolina Sportsman reported 1st: The crew of the Grady Bunch, fishing the first two days of 2015 just outside Beaufort Inlet, may not have landed a state-record bluefin tuna, but the three men and […]
NOAA Fisheries today announced final regulations that will help protect Atlantic bluefin tuna by reducing dead discards and providing measures to help ensure compliance with international quotas. These regulations were developed through a comprehensive process […]
What would appear to be a storybook tale of man versus fish was played out for real recently off the shores of the Hawaiian islands. Captain Bomboy Llanes and angler Jen Brooks had a date […]
Atlantic bluefin tuna are one of the most valuable fish in the sea. They are prized for the high-quality sushi and sashimi produced from their flesh, and it’s not uncommon for individual fish to fetch […]
The skiff was slowly moving across the shallow waters along the south side of Cape Lookout, with the 150-horsepower Yamaha engine so quiet we had to look back to be sure it was running. We […]
Swordfish are inherently aggressive, but this is one we haven’t heard before. Billfishreport.com reports that a 400 pound swordfish attacked a small piloted submersible that was working underwater on an oil rig off the coast […]
Adam Satter became a man on Monday. According to WPTV West Palm Beach, the 17-year-old local reeled in a 693-pound swordfish while trolling the waters 30 miles off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. Satter and […]
A new record catch was reeled in off the shores of Carteret County. The N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries announced Monday that it has certified a new state record African pompano. Angler Toby Grantham of […]
Matthew McCabe, of Warwick, caught a 36.2-pound cobia Tuesday. Manny Macedo of Lucky Bait & Tackle, in Warren, said, the fish was 48.5 inches, with a girth of 23.5 inches. John Wunner of John’s Bait […]
It’s unusual to catch one opah on a sportfishing boat, but anglers out of San Diego manage to land three of the brightly colored ‘moonfish’ on one day. Anglers aboard the San Diego-based Excel have […]
Karen Wright, a mother-of-two from Watsons Bay, has hauled in a world record sized tuna of the coast of Sydney Heads. Karen Wright of Watsons Bay wouldn’t be the first Sydneysider to take the day […]
The 2014 Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic got off to a quick start Friday at the Point Cadet Marina behind the Golden Nugget casino. The field of 63 boats parted Biloxi Thursday for the open […]
A Houston resident will soon have his name etched high in the Louisiana record books for a massive fish he hauled in last weekend. On Saturday, Cullen Greer caught a 297-pound Warsaw Grouper while next to […]
Beaumont Enterprise reported first: A record-breaking amberjack, weighing more than an average-sized supermodel, has been caught in the Gulf off the coast of Biloxi. Fishermen fought with the massive 126 pound catch for 30 minutes […]
Anglers participating in a cobia tournament recently off Destin, Florida, were off to a successful start when they landed a 40-pounder. But they forgot all about cobia as soon as one of the crew spotted […]
Reported First By Channel 13 (WLOX). The 2014 saltwater fishing season is off to a potentially record breaking start. Don Wheeler, of Laurel, set a pending Mississippi saltwater fishing record Saturday with a 126 pound […]
FreeDive.net Reported First: I’ve often wondered what it would be like to come face to face with a beastly marlin in the ocean, a competing predator with a spear of its own more primitive than […]
GRINFTV REPORTED FIRST: Donna Pascoe did not know what she had hooked when line began to race from her reel; she only knew that it was something enormous. “I hooked up at 9:10 a.m. with […]
The 10th Annual Lobito Big Game Tournament was one for the record books. Not only was the fishing spectacular in numbers with over 500 Sailfish released and 7 Blue Marlin, it was the size of […]
According to the American Fisheries Society, the scientific name for Alaska pollock has changed. But it will take several years for all the agencies that regulate trade in seafood products to update their nomenclature. In […]
Reported first by the New Zealand Herald: No woman in New Zealand has caught a bigger fish than the giant Pacific bluefin tuna that Aucklander Donna Pascoe reeled in this week after an epic four-hour […]
The Blaze Has This Story and the Photos: An albino blue marlin recently was hooked in the Los Suenos Marina in Costa Rica and it’s being billed as the first ever photographed. Images of the […]
NOAA Fisheries is providing notice of the immediate effect of regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). The commercial IFQ halibut season opens at noon local time tomorrow in Alaska. At its annual meeting […]
Swordfish management is a success story. Overfished in the 1980s and ’90s, the swordfish stock has since been fully rebuilt, thanks to domestic and international conservation measures. Recently, NOAA Fisheries Highly Migratory Species Division created […]
Source IGFA: Kiwi angler Kevin Baker potentially set the new All-Tackle record for Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis), with a 352.5 kg (777 lb 1 oz) fish he caught on September 14, 2013, while fishing […]
For almost a century, Bluefin tuna have been one of the most important big-game species sought by recreational anglers. However, the development of a lucrative international commercial industry for Bluefin tuna, has contributed to significant […]
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) kicks off its annual meeting this week, November 18-25th, in Cape Town, South Africa. At ICCAT, one of many Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs), the […]
A determined tuna fish has made a marathon journey of nearly 4,000 miles from Spain to Venezuela. Fishermen, working in partnership with researchers and scientists at the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, […]
Delaware Sport Fishing Tournament Director Nate Rust of DNREC’s Division of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed that a 358-pound swordfish caught on Sept. 7 set a new state record for the species. The record-sized swordfish […]
Check out this catch – This fish was hauled in by Debra Milani, a 4 foot 6 inch Roosterfish. “My Certificate from the IGFA, says Congratulations on a great Catch, weighing 120 pounds. It was […]
A bipartisan coalition led by Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) introduced legislation today that charts a new course for management of Gulf red snapper, an important commercial and recreational fishery that […]
NOAA Fisheries is seeking public comment on a proposed rule and its associated draft environmental impact statement, which aims to reduce discards of Atlantic bluefin tuna, and outlines measures to help ensure compliance with international […]
A swordfish usually found swimming in the clear, warm waters of the Mediterranean has been caught by a surprised fisherman in the River Tyne. The fish, which measures about 1.2m (4ft) long from the tip […]
A 738-pound Pacific bluefin tuna described by angler Nathan Adams as a “fish of a lifetime” may also be the largest Pacific bluefin ever landed on rod and reel. The catch was made aboard an […]
Dirk Whitsitt, a construction worker from Kansas, caught a fish of a lifetime only an hour into his first fishing trip in Alaska, and he wasn’t about to release the monster, not even for a […]
It was the catch of a lifetime. Three fishermen engaged in an epic battle with a 920-pound tuna on their line, the largest one to come into Massachusetts’ Gloucester Harbor this year, CBS Boston station […]
Summertime presents an interesting fishing opportunity for outboard boat owners in the Mid-Atlantic region as schools of small-to-midsize bluefin tuna take up residence on the middle grounds. That means that boats incapable of making the […]
Two record red drum, scads of speckled trout and hundreds of other fish and fishermen passed under the new Dr. Bob Shipp weigh station during a busy opening day of the 80th Alabama Deep Sea […]
In the hands of the IGFA: Eric Christopher Otte, of Wahoo, Nebraska, landed this enormous 18.46 kg (40 lb 11 oz) shortraker rockfish (Sebastes borealis) while jigging the deep waters of Cross Sound, Alaska on […]
Some records are merely broken, while others are completely obliterated. In Norway, this week, German fisherman Marco Liebenow reeled in the largest Atlantic halibut ever caught with a rod and line, a 513-pound behemoth that […]
11While fishing aboard the long-range boat Excel out of San Diego, angler and California native Robert J. Seidler landed this potential IGFA All-Tackle record. Seidler hooked the Black Trevally on May 16th while drifting a […]
A Brazoria County man has landed in the record books after he caught what state officials say is the biggest swordfish ever pulled from the Gulf of Mexico with a rod and reel. Bryan Barclay […]
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