Aaron Adams: Letting the fish speak

There are few people who understand the world of **bonefish, tarpon and permit** from as many angles as **Dr. Aaron Adams**. Aaron is the **Director of Science and Conservation at Bonefish & Tarpon Trust** and a Senior Scientist at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. But long before the Ph.D. and the research papers, he was an angler — fishing since he was five and developing an early fascination with not just *where* fish were, but **why they were there and what they needed to survive**. For more than 25 years, Aaron has worked throughout the U.S. and Caribbean studying fish, their movements and the habitats that sustain them. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers and three books, while helping turn that science into real-world conservation. Perhaps most importantly for anglers, he has a gift for taking complicated fisheries science and explaining what it actually means when we're standing on a flat with a fly rod in our hands.