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 | | Fondren served for nine years on the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, including as Chairman from 1989 to 1990, and was Chairman of the Gulf Council’s Billfish Advisory Panel until 2003. |
 | | He has given the greater part of his life to the sport in all its aspects — fishing, writing, conservation, judging, and ethics. |
 | | From 1964 to 1972 Lefty made his home in South Florida where he ran The MET (The Miami Metropolitan Fishing Tournament), wrote for The Miami Herald and, together with Karl Wickstrom and Vic Dunaway, started Florida Sportsman magazine in 1969. |
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