Q&A with Stephanie Vatalaro
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
, Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation
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Stephanie Vatalaro, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
, Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation
Boating and fishing have been continuous threads in Stephanie Vatalaro’s life. She was born in Ohio “into a boating family,” spending weekends aboard her grandparents’ boat on Lake Erie.
Things changed dramatically when she turned 7 and her immediate family moved to Islamorada, Fla. “When we moved there in 1983, it was the authentic Keys. A little more of that beatnik personality,” Vatalaro says. Her dad found his calling as a guide and offshore captain. “[He] really fell into and stayed with it a long time flats fishing, backcountry fishing. So I grew up in the fishing capital of the world, and my dad was a fishing guide, so obviously [I] spent a lot of time on the water growing up.”
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