Lawrence and Scottie explore why getting out the message that youth need opportunities to learn both how to fish, and how to become stewards of nature.
Since 2012 Blue Fish Canada is dedicated to the conservation, protection, and restoration of Canada’s freshwater and saltwater environments and their wild fish stocks. It aims to document and promote Canada’s fishing heritage and sustainable fishing practices, ensuring that future generations of Canadians have access to healthy freshwater and marine fisheries.
Blue Fish Canada, a registered charity dedicated to the future of fish and fishing, has program objectives that include:
Fish health may be the least understood and most difficult to assess research challenges. Assessing water quality is relatively simple in comparison, but water quality alone isn’t a measure of fish health. Time and resources are required to locate and capture fish in numbers that adequately represent the aquatic or marine ecosystem as a whole, not an easy task when fish move about and are largely invisible to the human eye.
Lawrence and Scottie explore why getting out the message that youth need opportunities to learn both how to fish, and how to become stewards of nature.
What's new at Blue Fish Canada: Our Get Ready for Fishing program was a huge success in Cornwall with over 165 youth and family members participating from a wide cross-section of the population. Next up, it’s the Akwesasne youth fishing at Mallorytown Landing on the...
Scottie Martin and Lawrence explore fish scale art and how to tell WHEN fish are spawning by the shape of their scales. Lawrence gives a quick overview of the Blue fish Canada “Get Ready for Fishing” event held in Cornwall at the OPG Visitor’s Centre