FWC bringing live TV show celebrating Florida fishing to Miami
News Release
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Media contact: Gabriella Ferraro, 561-625-5122 or 772-215-9459
Florida seafood is fresh and delicious. Despite the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the majority of our state's waters are
open to fishing. Florida continues to be, hands-down, the fishing
capital of the world.
These are some of the important messages the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), the
Wildlife Foundation of Florida and Visit Florida will be promoting
to a nationwide audience Friday evening. The FWC, the foundation
and state tourism officials have pooled their efforts to host an
event that will be so huge, and so filled with prominent faces,
VERSUS Cable TV network will broadcast it live across the
country.
Doors will swing open at 5 p.m. July 30 at the
Grove Harbour Marina in Coconut Grove. FWC leadership and
scientists will join fishing experts and world-renowned
oceanographer Fabien Cousteau at a 5:30 p.m. press conference to
unveil the state's new fishing promotion campaign. Then it's time
for the live TV show, from 7-8 p.m. The evening's festivities
will conclude with a fresh Florida seafood cookout, courtesy of the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
(Note to editors: this revises a news release
issued earlier today.)
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