Interested in aiding in ocean conservation and diving with Giants in Catalina?

[Jr Clark]

I am raising money for a Giant sea bass conservation research. Gifts are given to those who donate and a mere $1,000 donation gets you an opportunity to dive with us and aid in our research! http://experiment.com/savethegiants

 

[Sam Miller III]

Have you been in recent contact with John Fitch?

 

[keithbt]

I am raising money for a Giant sea bass conservation research. Gifts are given to those who donate and a mere $1,000 donation gets you an opportunity to dive with us and aid in our research! http://experiment.com/savethegiants

"A mere $1000"....In my world $1000 is never mere. I'm all for the research, but I think you need to ask a little differently......

 

[Jr Clark]

Have you been in recent contact with John Fitch?

I have not, is he someone that is fairly knowledgeable about giants?

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"A mere $1000"....In my world $1000 is never mere. I'm all for the research, but I think you need to ask a little differently......

Sorry keith, I didn't mean to offend. when I read it, I see it more as sarcastic or a joke, I should have italicized mere or something. $1000 is a hefty load, but there are also gifts for lower dollar amount donations.

 

[Sam Miller III]

I have not, is he someone that is fairly knowledgeable about giant sea bass?
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I would strongly urge that if you are indeed serious, as I suspect you are about the GBSB aka BSB that you discuss John Fitch with your professor at CSN and then dwell into John's life time of passionate research on the BSB.

SDM

 

[LACounty4806]

Have you been in recent contact with John Fitch?

I hope not. He died in 1982.

 

[AZTinman]

I hope not. He died in 1982.

Anyone know a good medium? (lol)

-AZTinman

 

[Jr Clark]

Anyone know a good medium? (lol)

-AZTinman

I've been talking with Bill Bushing and my advisor Dr. Larry Allen, both are very knowledgeable about giants

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I hope not. He died in 1982.

lol yea. I remember seeing that, I just assumed he had a son with the same name or something.

 

[Sam Miller III]

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I would strongly urge that if you are indeed serious, as I suspect you are about the GBSB aka BSB that you discuss John Fitch with your professor at CSN and then dwell into John's life time of passionate research on the BSB.

SDM

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Bill Bushing aka Dr. Bill & I were in on the ruse -- If you have had human anatomy and it is assume you have then you are familiar with the "Freshman muscle?" You have passed the test..

I knew John Fitch during the days of "harvesting" BSB with a long pointed thing some refer to as a spear gun. Yes I was fully aware that he is no longer with us

John was always collecting data always available to chat and always interested in BSB. t was because of his data collection that the harvesting of BSB was prohibited in 1972, and never a moment to late.

I am very interested in your effort especially the mortality of the mature GSB. Dr. Bill has indicated on several occasions he has seen numerous mature fish over 600 pounds (how he can estimate the weight of a fish that large is amazing!) ! That is one big fish! The spearfishing record was over 600 -618 which was set at the height of the spear fishing period. The record was set by Bob Stanberry who now lives in Arizona.

Pacific Underwater News (PUN)was a wonderful diving news paper published during the 60s which had numerous pictures and reports of BSB. I happen to have the only remaining set of PUN. If this document will be of assistance in your research please advise...a small way to repay the BSB population for the damage done.


Good luck,

SDM

 

[drbill]

I was aware of Sam's ruse and participated to the extent of not saying anything.

To clarify, we here on Catalina have not seen "numerous" fish estimated in the 600 lb range... just a few. These weight estimates were done not just by me, but by several other observers including a few local fishermen. I agree with Sam that until we get them on a scale (which won't happen), we won't know for sure. Looking at historical pictures of anglers with hanging giant sea bass, one must keep in mind that the average height of humans a century ago was shorter than it is today so comparisons are not easy to make.