Bream Fishermen Association (BFA)

The Bream Fishermen Association (BFA) is a well known and a highly respected organization which has assisted the city, county, state, and region as environmental stewards in protecting our northwest Florida and south Alabama waters for over 40 years. Loosely organized in the mid 1960’s as a result of water quality conditions deteriorating in the region; the BFA organized themselves into a non-profit organization chartered in Jan 1970. That was the same year that USEPA was created as an outgrowth of the burgeoning environmental movement in the United States during the 1960s. President Richard M. Nixon signed the Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, the legal document that established the EPA. The creation of the EPA was an attempt to consolidate individual state environmental programs in a coordinated way under the control of one agency with clear-cut responsibility for environmental protection. The EPA opened its doors for business on December 2, 1970, less than eight months after the first Earth Day celebration, and 11 months after the BFA was established.