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North Carolina Wildlife Federation (NCWF) has launched a Fishing Line Recovery and Recycling Project
July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The strength and durability that makes monofilament line perfect for fishing can also make it a hazard to wildlife if it’s not discarded properly. For the sea turtles, fish, dolphin and birds that ingest the line or become entangled in it, it can cause injury or death.
The NCWF’s new Fishing Line Recovery and Recycling Program is modeled after a program in Florida, and involves installing receptacles at public fishing and boating areas so that used fishing line can be easily discarded, collected and then recycled.
Federation volunteers have already started installing its first receptacles — built from 6-inch diameter PVC pipe — along the Catawba River. The organization has plans in place to take the program statewide.
Via (jdnews)
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Hunting and Fishing Product Site Offers Equipment to Help Disabled Outdoorsmen enjoy Their Favorite Sports
June 5, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A husband’s love of the outdoors and his wife’s passion for helping others is the recipe for an extraordinary Web site, which features adaptive hunting and fishing equipment for people with disabilities.
AdaptiveOutdoorsman.com “was fate,” said Renee Error, president of the company that she and her husband, Mike, launched recently. It’s also the couple’s first venture in e-commerce.
The inspiration for the company (http://adaptiveoutdoorsman.com/index.html) belongs to a 16-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy – the nephew of a friend of Mike Error, vice president of AdaptiveOutdoorsman.com.
“He would sit in his home at this huge picture window and watch the deer. And one of his wishes was to go deer hunting,” recalled Error. So Mike Error and his close friend, the teenager’s uncle, decided to take the youth hunting.
After the fish were gone
May 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Jean Marbella over at the Baltimore Sun has written a great article on how the collapse of fish stock turned a community into a ghost town.
Jean Marbella
May 2, 2008Towns usually die slowly in a cascading series of losses – the factory, the high school, the movie theater – making it hard to point to when or even why a once thriving community expires. But with Great Harbour Deep, a one-time outpost in a remote coastal stretch of Newfoundland in Canada, it was clear when the death spiral began and what triggered it.
When the cod went away, so did the town.
“It was overfishing,” said Sharon Elgar, a former town clerk of the former town. “Fish, fish, fish, till nothing was left.”
Today, Great Harbour Deep, once home to several hundred people, is a ghost town, one of a number of towns that died along with the collapse of the cod industry. In 2002, the Canadian government paid each of the remaining 52 households as much as $100,000 to abandon their homes and their community – it was cheaper than continuing to provide power, transportation and other services to the dwindling population. Given her official town duties, Elgar was among the last to leave, shortly before the date, Oct. 31, when the power would be cut and the lights, literally, would go out in Great Harbour Deep. (Link) to read more
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