Journal 7/11/1986 P1 Big winner, big smile Kenneth Kramer showed off the 190-pound Pacific blue marlin he caught Friday to win the Fourth Annual Marshalls Billfish Club tournament. Five marlin highlighted the two-day event. Fifteen-year-old Kenneth wowed the thousands of spectators dockside Friday when he brought in the first and largest fish of the tournament. […]
Team Hangloose, with Captain Larry Hernandez, Jr., won last weekend’s Marshalls Billfish Club’s fishing derby with this monster marlin. The marlin weighed in at 390 pounds beating back a number of other challengers who landed marlin last Saturday. A lot of yellowfin were caught by other anglers as well.Notably, it was MBC’s first derby of […]
The Marshalls Billfish Club gave out numerous awards and trophies at its banquet at the RRE stage area last Wednesday. The well-attended event saw many anglers recognized for their fishing talents. Long-time local fisherman Kenneth Kramer won his first Atjang Paul Memorial Trophy — given to the fisherman each year who exemplifies sportsmanship. Wally Milne, […]
Plenty of fish, but no seriously large ones, highlighted the 29th Annual All Micronesia Fishing Tournament in Majuro hosted by the Marshalls Billfish Club last weekend. Team Kirtake Captain Ronnie Reimers won the marlin contest and $4,000 with a 194lb marlin. Interestingly, two categories of fish had anglers tied for the top prizes, while Team […]
P1 Air Tungaru leases AMI 748 The island nations of Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji and the Marshall Islands are closer together today as a result of an agreement signed by Air Tungaru and Air Marshall Islands whereby our 748 plane will fly weekly to Fiji via the other two nations under charter by Air Tungaru of […]
Journal 7/5/1983 P1 Are you registered to vote? Voter registration is now open for the 7 September plebiscite on the Compact of Free Association and the November Nitijela elections. Chief Electoral Officer Shiro Riklon said there are about 12,000 voters presently registered. He estimates there are 2,000 to 3,000 eligible voters who are not registered. […]
Dozens of anglers competing in last weekend’s two-day annual 37th Marshalls Billfish Club tournament caught eight qualifying billfish, with Damien Milne on Bakaro reeling in the two biggest ones at 415 and 330 lbs. Milne also won total qualifying pounds for his marlin catches. Ronnie Reimers on Kirtake hauled in a 323 lbs marlin to […]
Dozens of anglers and bottom fishermen will take to their boats this weekend in Majuro for two days of fishing competition. The beautiful Miss Urok Alexis Henry and Miss Billfish Iesha Abner Floor will both grace the docks in Uliga harbor July 5 and 6 for the running of the 37th Annual Marshalls Billfish Club […]
Journal 3/30/1982 P1 Japan to pay $1,250,000 for fishing rights The Republic of the Marshall Islands and Japan recently signed a new fisheries agreement that will be in effect for one year beginning April 1. Under the terms of the agreement, Japanese fishing boats will be licensed to fish in Marshallese waters in return for […]
Journal 3/2/1982 P1 DeBrum: Compact talks broke down Marshall Islands Foreign Secretary Tony deBrum returned home on February 25 to report that status negotiations with the United States had broken down. Secretary deBrum said in a news release: “We’re back to square one. We are now further away from the end of the negotiations than […]
