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Okihasi

Offshore Fish in the Gulf - Men’s Floridian Shirt

Sale price$79.00
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For generations, the phrase “deep sea fishing” has never lost its allure. An angler never knows which species of fish may be next to sample a piece of squid or a chunk of cigar minnow dangled above the bottom of the Gulf. We invite you to channel that spirit of adventure with Okihasi’s Offshore Fish of the Gulf of Mexico men’s coastal shirt. It offers the best in relaxed comfort and is cool in more ways than one.

A charter boat — call it The Okihasi — leaves the marina and heads to the St. Andrew Bay pass to the Gulf of Mexico, pausing on the way at a floating bait station where it purchases a scoop of live cigar minnows. It’s a bluebird day with seas offshore expected to run two to three feet. Manageable enough. The mood aboard the 42-foot Bertram is optimistic. The anglers onboard each drop a 10-spot into a bank bag. The fisher boating the largest fish will collect its contents. Red snapper season is open, which adds to the excitement, but the winning fish is likely to be a gag grouper or a bruising amberjack. It’s agreed that sharks will not be eligible. The captain runs 90 minutes offshore before he throttles back the engines and tells the anglers to make their lines ready. Lighting up the bottom machine are fish suspended about 10 feet off the bottom at 130 feet. It isn’t long before poles start bouncing. The opportunity to catch large predator fish depends on a successful, complex ecosystem and many-linked food chains with tiny zooplankton and phytoplankton as their foundation. No matter how vast the Gulf, it would be a mistake to discount the need to take good care of its resources. - Steve Bornhoft

Please see below for more about the shirt, care, and sizing.

More on the Offshore Fish and the Gulf of Mexico food web.

The Gulf of Mexico’s intricate food web depends on a delicate balance between many ocean species. These organisms range from the very small plant-like phytoplankton to the top predators like the blue marlin. Many parts of this food web are vital resources for our food demands, like gulf shrimp, mahi, grouper, and yellowfin tuna. Commercial and recreational fisherman seek these fish and larger fish like king mackerel, wahoo, cobia, red snapper, and more. One group of organisms that typically goes unnoticed in the gulf are the diatoms. Diatoms are extremely small sphere-shaped phytoplankton that are the base of this food web. They convert light energy, from the sun, into chemical energy and remove CO2 from our atmosphere. All other organisms depend on these tiny plants for their survival. They are also a vital component of removing nutrient pollution from the gulf. 

Conserving this delicate ecosystem is crucial to preserving biodiversity, sustaining fishery populations, and safeguarding the health of our oceans for future generations. 

MATERIAL DETAILS

  1. Light-weight Viscose material made from bamboo - excellent to wear on those hot days.

  2. Machine wash cold on gentle - Mild detergents - Dry Cleaning Recommended

  3. Line dry

  4. Iron on a medium setting - take caution when ironing

Sizing

Do not use generic sizing (S, M, L, etc). Take exact measurements of your body to get the correct size. See the sizing chart below. 

Chest Size

Small - 41-44”

Medium - 44-47”

Large - 47-50”

XL - 50-54”

XXL - 54-58”

Length

Small - 27.5-28.5”

Medium - 28.5-29.75”

Large - 30-30.25”

XL - 31-31.13”

XXL - 32”

Shoulder

Small - 17-18.25”

Medium - 18-19”

Large - 19-19.75”

XL - 20.75”

XXL - 21.75”

 
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Offshore Fish in the Gulf - Men’s Floridian Shirt Sale price$79.00

Wear Okihasi and DemonstrateYour Love for Florida’s Environment

As a college student, I traveled to a South Africa and worked on a study involving meerkats and Cape ground squirrels. While there, I saw spectacular exotic species — warthogs and snake-eating secretary birds and the exceedingly rare brown hyena.

But it was upon my return to the United States that a small, brown bird enabled me to appreciate the importance of all species to the web of life and taught me that a critically endangered, seemingly inconsequential bug eater can inspire conservation efforts capable of preserving an entire ecosystem.

Birders talk about their “spark bird,” the species that stimulated in them a lifelong fascination with nature. For me, it was that small, brown bird — the Florida grasshopper sparrow, introduced to me by a University of Central Florida professor during a trip to the Kissimmee Prairie Preserve.

I grew up amid prickly pear cacti and gopher tortoises at the tip of the Lake Wales Ridge in Central Florida. My mother was a middle school science teacher. As a kid, my appreciate for nature and wildlife was limited, but my life changed when I changed my college major from psychology to biology.

Some years after graduating, I was part of a team establishing a STEM school in Ashville, North Carolina, when my parents, returning from a trip to Hawaii, presented me with an authentic aloha shirt that featured a marine scene. I wore only solid-colored shirts at the time, and my first reaction was “I’ll never wear this.” But I did, and I was surprised by all the conversations that shirt started, and I bought more of them.

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, I, like many others, thought about starting a business, and Okihasi was born. It combines my fondness for aloha shirts with my love for Florida’s diverse ecosystems.

My shirts, like that aloha shirt that landed in the mountains of western North Carolina, spark conversations — among ecologists, environmentalists, birders and nature enthusiasts of all stripes.

I find that gratifying and hope Okihasi Floridian men’s shirts help inspire people to preserve natural areas, strike a balance between development and conservation and save creatures great and small, including those little brown birds.

Sincerely,

John Mizell

Florida Family-Owned

Located in Panama City Beach, Okihasi is owned and operated by Florida natives who are inspired and guided by their strong passion for Florida’s natural beauty.

Florida Themed Shirts

Okihasi shirts depict Florida’s diverse ecosystems and the tremendous variety of its flora and fauna in an effort to foster appreciation for irreplaceable lifeforms. Designed by a Floridian Biologist, each shirt tells a story of our natural areas.

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