Eco-Fishing - The Sustainable Way To Fish

Eco-Fishing Including Catch and Release Is A Vital Fishing Method to Ensure That Future Generations Will Have Fish To Catch. Small Lakes Can Be Fished Out BY Greed. That Is Why We Work SO Hard TO Educate Fishermen and Women TO Practice Catch And Release. We Do Have Cookouts But We Don't Want To Catch Freshwater Fish To Sell. Freshwater Fishing is Something Children Can Do Locally So Commercial Fishing In local Lakes Can Deplete The Resource and Fun For Kids. Please DO NOT Fish TO Sell In South Florida in Our Freshwater Lakes.

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Send your child to Fishing Academy Camp. "Teach a child to fish" with us at the Mahogany Youth Summer Camp and watch them enjoy the summer.

Price: $250.00

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Eco-Fishing Youth Camp

What Is Eco-Fishing

Eco-Fishing combines recreational fishing with environmental awareness and environmental stewardship. People who practice Eco-Fishing do more than just catch fish. They pick up litter, they remove old lines form the fishing place. They do not spill toxic chemicals or fuels in the water. They do not release dirty bilge water into marine or freshwater environments. In very enclosed areas they do not put old bait or food scraps to prevent nutrient pollution.

They do not over fish. There is no need in most cases to catch your limit. 2 fish per person is usually enough for most people. No one needs this many fish even if the catch is under the limit. It is best to only keep the fish out of the water for a few seconds. Catch them, enjoy them and then quickly and carefully return them to the water.

Eco-Fishers use dehookers, deflators and put fish back immediately into the water. Using barbless hooks save more fish. Do not use stainless steel hooks.

Eco-Fishers Never Never Discard Plastic Bags in The Water Or At The Water Side

Make sure everything that comes with you goes back with you.

The 2008 Mahogany Youth Summer Eco-Fishing Camp

A summer Eco-Fishing camp is being held in South Florida by Mahogany Outdoors to teach South Florida youth catch and release fishing combined with knowhow about Florida’s water resources and how to ensure that the fish resource will be there for subsequent generation, according to Dr. Carol Cross, Marketing Director for the camp to be held in TY Park in Fort Lauderdale June 9 to August 15, 2008.

Catch and Release fishing is one of the tools we as environmentalists can use to preserve our water resources and environmental quality. In Florida alone billions of dollars are spent by fishermen. Many fishing clubs are developing environmental project relating to habitat restoration, stream cleanup, and streamside plantings. It’s a self interest approach as fishermen want to continue to fish and thus they now know they must maintain the resource.

Eco-Fishing including Catch and release fishing has replaced much of the harvesting of fish in developed countries. Fisherman catch the fish, enjoy the moment, take photos and then release them back into the water to be caught again. To ensure fish survival, tools have been developed like barbless hooks, dehookers that remove the hooks without damaging the fish and deflators which enable fish brought up from the depth to release the gas from ruptured or damaged air bladders. Fishermen are always seeking new way to preserve the environment, the fish resource and their opportunity to continue the sport of fishing. This kind of fishing I call Eco-Fishing.

How is the next generation of fishermen being taught this new style of Eco-Fishing? Children need to be taught to release the fish when caught, how to remove the hook safely and how to not put their hands on the fish’s body because this removes the outer coating which could cause the fish to die when returned to the water. Teaching catch and release fishing to children is being taught in South Florida by the Mahogany Youth Corporation, a non profit organization that is holding a 10 week Eco-Fishing camp this summer in Broward and Dade County.

In this camp, youth will combine classroom study of fish habits, fish identification, knot typing, ecological principles with outdoor casting practice followed by fishing under adult supervision. The children will have opportunities to go out on a boat one day each week to learn boat safety and how to fish from a boat. At the end of each week, there will be a one day tournament, with trophies and prizes for the winners.

Enrollment in this unique ecofishing camp is $250 per week. Campers can enroll for one week or all remaining weeks. To enroll or find out more information go to Eco-Fishing Camp