Tuna Cup challenge underway Workshop in Charlottetown focuses on sexual and gender minority youth

The Canada International Tuna Cup Challenge is underway as teams have arrived in North Lake, the tuna capital of the world.

Team Pescatours (Spain) and Capt. Tory Bruce (Bruce Brothers Fishing) are back to defend their title but will face competition from 11 other teams.

This year’s roster of anglers come from a diverse area once again, including Australia, Los Angeles/Hawaii, Connecticut, Ohio, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

The cup got underway on Wednesday night with an opening

A workshop focused on caring and supporting P.E.I. sexual and gender minority youth will take place this week at Holland College in Charlottetown.

Dr. Andre Grace will present a day-long workshop at the P.E.I. Psychological, Social Worker and Counselling Associations gathering reception before the teams get three full days of tuna fishing. The event will conclude on Saturday night with the closing dinner and awards banquet where the hardware will be handed out.

Each team is permitted to catch and release two tunas per day (six in total for the event). Points are assigned based on 100 points for each fish landed and released and one point per inch in length. The winner will be the team with the most points over the three days.

For event updates, the challenge is on social media on Facebook at tunacupchallenge. on Sept. 21.

Grace is a Canada research chairman in sexual and gender minority studies (tier 1) in the faculty of education at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on the comprehensive health, educational and cultural concerns of SGM youth.