Mark. H. V. Corps

Angling Advisor &

Educational Outreach coordinator

Youth Angling

Initiatives

Current IFI initiatives

• Something Fishy

• Dublin Angling Initiative

• Fisheries Awareness Week

Something Fishy

• Launched in 2004 at Blackrock Education Centre by Minister Mary Hanafin

• To inform & educate students about water quality, fish, the environment & angling

• SF is aimed at 5 & 6 classes in Primary school

• 2010 / 11 - 163 schools took part Some 4000 students

• 2011 / 12 - 126 schools took part Just over 3000 students

Dublin Angling Initiative• Set up in 1995

• To promote, develop and improve angling in the Dublin & Greater Dublin area

• Runs fishing courses for young people from National & Secondary schools, summer projects and youth services

• Stock waterways / lakes in the Dublin area, providing anglers with a greater variety of fishing

Fisheries Awareness Week

• First run on a national scale in 2009• Aims to encourage adults &

children who may never have fished before to take up angling

• Work with angling clubs & organisations to promote all types of angling

• Promote the role of the fisheries service in protecting & conserving our fisheries resource

Outreach programmes• In the UK in 2000, Mick Watson, set

up ‘Get Hooked.’ to engage young people in an activity to divert them from anti-social behaviour

• Originally delivered by Durham Agency against Crime

• Successful so other similar projects set up such as Dreamstore, Angling Projects, Cast Angling Project

• It improved school attendance rates & involved participants in positive alternatives to criminal behaviour

• In July 2006 the Durham scheme formed a social enterprise ‘Get Hooked North East Ltd’

Angling for Youth Development

to offer people of all backgrounds & abilities opportunities to participate in the sport of angling, thereby improving their quality of life’

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Objectives• Provide safety awareness through

education & good practice• Develop young people’s skills & self-

confidence• Encourage responsible & positive

participation within the sport & the community

• Raise awareness of environmental issues

• Provide instruction of the highest quality in angling techniques & fishing etiquette

• Divert people away from anti-social behaviour so reducing crime to create safer communities

• Support participants wishing to gain recognised qualifications in angling

• The original course was created by Strathclyde policemen, Knight & Stewart in 2002

• Put in place with the help of the Scottish Anglers National Association and Knight

• Developed to target ‘socially

excluded’ students

• Evolved for students as an academic qualification

Evolution of AFYD

• 2002 original course designed

• 2004 AFYD set up

• 2008 grown into the largest angling training organisation in Scotland gaining charitable trust status

• 2009 got Scottish SQA approval (and SCQF Credit) for its Game Angling and Fishery Science Courses.

Game angling course modules1. History of Angling & the Game

Species2. Angling Equipment3. Fly Fishing (Casting & Tactics)4. Water Safety5. Angling & Wildlife Law6. Angling & Environmental Law.7. Fly Tying8. Insects & creatures of the aquatic

environment

Modules

• Work Journal

• Practical Skills Assessment

• Module Exam

Questions?