Free Fishing Oceanography Seminar Beaufort January 12 at 7pm

WHO: MITCHELL A. ROFFER, PH.D., PRESIDENT OF ROFFS™
WHEN: THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 2012 AT 7:00 PM (SOCIAL HOUR AT 6:00PM)
Where: RADIO ISLAND MARINA, BEAUFORT, NC

Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting Services, Inc. (ROFFS™) and Radio Island Marina of Beaufort, NC (Monthly bill and Jane Newbern) are inviting you and your fishing pals and household to an evening seminar. Dr. Mitchell A Roffer (Ph.D.), President will be presenting an casual chat on how you can simply use fisheries oceanographic info to boost your catch rates. This is not a ROFFS™ infomercial, but a science discuss reviewing factors on how fish are influenced by the formation, situation, and place of their favored habitats. Such subjects as availability, vulnerability and catchability, in phrases of water temperature, salinity, density, dissolved oxygen, clarity/turbidity, color and bottom construction will be considered. He will examine which elements of the preferred habitats are most crucial in the waters off North Carolina for tuna, marlin, kingfish, wahoo, and dolphin.

The favorite habitat and catchability principles will be connected to distinct tactics and techniques that anglers really should get gain of to improve their catch prices. Roffer will describe how ocean convergence zones and their stability is crucial in forming concentrations of baitfish and locating concentrations of feeding fish. The importance of understanding local and regional ocean circulation and h2o mass boundaries will be stressed. Differences in the course of rotation of eddy functions and fish catchability will be part of the seminar. He will give a essential evaluation of some of the far more frequent strategies that are presently being employed to research for successful fishing grounds by local region fishermen, as nicely as, by others employing social networks, satellites, other oceanographic knowledge and models.

The audience will be proven how they can locate and use satellite data to comprehend the drinking water circulation to improve their catch rates. Roffer will highlight the methods needed to attain this, as nicely as, the difficulties and limitations when making use of satellite info along with the typical errors when trying to interpret the imagery. He will also evaluation some of the satellite fisheries oceanographic study and operational operate that he have been concerned with at ROFFS™, NASA and NOAA, Office of Homeland Stability (such as search and rescue), and various state and federal environmental defense businesses (hazardous components checking).

Roffer, the founder of ROFFS™, has a doctorate (biological oceanography – fisheries oceanography) from the renowned College of Miami’s Rosenstiel College of Maritime and Atmospheric Science. He was selected yet again (8th 12 months) to be on the prestigious, worldwide NASA Earth Science’s Biodiversity and Ecological Forecasting Science Group and participates as portion of the NASA Ocean Coloration and Sea Surface area Temperature Science Teams. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Southeast United States Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Affiliation (SECOORA), the Merchandise and Solutions Committee of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (GCOOS), and is Chairman of the Florida COOS Consortium. Roffer is an Adjunct Professor at the Florida Institute of Technologies, Division of Maritime and Environmental Systems in Melbourne, FL.

There will be a social hour starting up at six:00 PM and a question and reply time period at the finish of the 60-75 second seminar. RSVP not necessary, but we suggest you arrive prior to the seven:00 PM begin of the seminar as seating is minimal. The Radio Island Marina is located on 156 Radio Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 which is south of Route 70 (Arendell St) just east of Morehead City, NC. There is no
charge for this insightful seminar. Some cold refreshments will be provided.