CharlestonFishing.Com and MyFish.com – Fishing for Statistics in SC Waters
Written By Jeff Dennis
In January and February 2008 Anglers reported catching 127 Redfish, releasing 117 with 58 of those released legal to have kept. The 2007 catch data has been compiled and released by MyFish.com with first quarter 2008 catch statistics coming out on April 15th. These recreational catch stats are available to anyone, with the theme of anglers assisting fisheries managers. In 2007 MyFish.com became a corporate sponsor of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation Association and sought guidance from Scott Whitaker, Tombo Milliken and Mike Able about how best to apply its logbook data for the benefit of all fisheries.
Captain Todd Stamps and Beau Shiflet are founders of MyFish.com, a website offering free logbooks for anglers which benefit the individual angler and provide recreational data for fishery managers. Stamps summed up MyFish’s mission by saying, “MyFish.com wants to capture recreational fish data and use it to help all fish species ranging from blue gill to blue marlin.”
Seeking to focus on the Charleston area, MyFish.com has reached out to the popular on-line fishing forum know as CharlestonFishing.com. Mr. Vasco Pickett, operator for that website, along with brothers Tim and Andy, agreed to partner with MyFish.com and said, “The fisherman who log onto www.CharlestonFishing.Com are concerned about fisheries and the possibility of over-fishing, and they strongly condone obeying size and creel limits.” Stamps added that the key to managing our resources into the future is the willingness to work together to achieve this common goal.
In March 2008 Stamps paid a visit to Mike Able to offer support to CCA in SC and to share some SC recreational data. Captain Mike Able is the Government Relations Committee Chairman for CCA in SC and has been a member for 23 years. His professional career began guiding offshore trips, before switching to inshore-only from 1992 to 2003. He set his sights on t