BRIEFS. fishing

Professor to lecture about billfish

A professor from the University of Miami will be in Panama later this month to discuss the economic importance of the country's sport fishing industry.

An estimated 5,000 people a year visit Panama specifically to go sport fishing. The country has some of the most fertile deep sea fishing grounds in the world, especially for billfish and tuna.

Ehrhardt will give a lecture at 4 p.m. Aug. 19 at the offices of the Fundación para la Conservación del Mar, la Naturaleza y Especies Marinas (Conamar).