David Rainer

Women Learn Fishing, Conservation Skills at Tagging Workshop

Sarah Gibbs and Crystal Hightower hope last week’s Ladies Tagging Workshop at the Weeks Bay Tonsmeire Resource Center is just the beginning of a trend on the Alabama Gulf Coast of female anglers gathering on a regular basis to hone their fishing skills and connect with fellow anglers – and sometimes help with research. Gibbs, a PhD student with Dr. Steven Scyphers in the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of South Alabama (USA), recruited Dauphin Island Sea Lab’s Hightower and charter captains Richard Rutland and Theo Atkinson, as well as the female…

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