The Fish Virginia First organization held their monthly board meeting at Fairystone Park, near Stuart, VA on Feb. 12.

This organization is workinig on a project to heavily promote fishing in over 40 counties in Virginia where fishing is a great tourism attraction. They have 3 key objectives: 1. Create and advertisement brochure 2. Create a new website promoting fishing in each of the member counties 3. Hold at least 1 fishing tournament event per year. Their funding comes from donations from the member counties and municipalities, Virginia Tobacco Indemnification Fund and Virginia Travel The photo was taken by Tom Bishop