Sunday, February 9, 2014

09/02/2014: Complex trout plan; trout in the classroom; ice fishing rescue

A report on a complex trout fishery on the Upper Androscoggin River in Maine, USA, has met with widespread approval for its openness and transparency in addressing the objectives of a management plan that took into account the needs of conservation and recreation groups. 

Above is the Middle Falls along the Androscoggin River at Rumford

The Upper Androscoggin River Fishery Management Plan by state fisheries biologists Francis Brautigam and James Pellerin of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, was released last month.

Read more here ...


Hundreds if not thousands of school children are learning about fish through a unique initiative in the USA called 'Trout in the Classroom'. The project began when Monica Willits of Byron  a small town in Minnesota, USA visited Stewartville Middle School in February last year. She asked a class decorated with fish, "Do you like fish?"


It was to have wide-ranging impact. As it happens, Willits is youth education coordinator for Hiawatha Trout Unlimited (TU) and was looking for classrooms for TU's 'Trout in the Classroom' projects in this region.

Read more here ...


Ice fishing is dangerous. Here, a video shows the removal of this Mazda SR9 with Wheelhouse Ice fishing shelter that broke through the ice. This 20-plus minute video has an informative voice over by the head of the recovery operation - a great team effort by Bob Kirschbaum's Repair and Tow ice recovery crew of Spirit Lake, Iowa

Watch and learn ...

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