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<br />
What is the<br />
IGFA Great Marlin Race?<br />
The IGFA Great Marlin Race (IGMR), pre-<br />
sented by Costa Sunglasses®, is the<br />
world's largest billfish satellite tagging<br />
program. This program is a partner-<br />
ship between The International<br />
Game Fish Association (IGFA) and<br />
Stanford University that pairs recre-<br />
ational anglers with cutting-edge sci-<br />
ence to learn more about the basic<br />
biology of billfish and how they utilize<br />
the open ocean habitat. By deploying<br />
pop up satellite archival tags (PSATs) on billfish<br />
at recreational angling tournaments around the<br />
world each year, the IGMR will help increase sci-<br />
entific understanding of the distribution, popu-<br />
lation structure and biology of marlin, and<br />
engage anglers and the general public in the re-<br />
search process. By increasing our understanding<br />
of where these animals go and how they use<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=1"> </a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=2"> What is the IGFA Great Marlin Race? The IGFA Gr</a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=3"> How does it work? The concept behind the IGMR i</a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=4"> How is the tagging data used? Tag sponsors, ang</a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=5"> Is it productive science? The partnership betwe</a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=6"> Why support the IGMR? Globally, most billfish po</a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=7"> How to support the IGMR? Productive science come</a>
<a title="IGMR_Support_2019 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e0a3fe6e?page=8"> The IGFA is a nonprofit organization comm</a>