Bord Iascaigh Réigiúnach an Oirthir
Press Release 2nd September 2009
On Thursday 3rd September, children from St. Kevin’s Boys National School in Finglas will take part in a fisheries awareness day at Annamoe Trout Fishery, Co. Wicklow at 11.30am. The purpose of this event is to introduce beginners to fishing as a recreational activity.
The Dublin Angling Initiative is organising this day as part of fisheries awareness week. A series of events are being run throughout the country and the main purpose is to introduce more people to angling. The event with St. Kevin’s Boys National School at Annamoe fishery will involve a talk on methods, baits, conservation and safety for trout fishing. This will be followed by a practical session of rainbow trout fishing with instruction being given by expert tutors. Annamoe Trout Fishery is providing its fishery free of charge and the tutors are giving their time voluntarily.
The young people are aged 11-12 years and they have participated in one of the Board’s educational projects earlier this year. The ‘salmon egg rearing project’ was one whereby primary schools were given talks by fisheries officers on the lifecycle of the salmon, environmental awareness and angling as a past-time. This was then followed up by the installation of aquariums in the school and children actively looked after salmon eggs, watching them grow and then released them into the local river. It is anticipated that this awareness day will build on the knowledge that these children have acquired through this educational programme.
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Josie Mahon
Eastern Regional Fisheries Board
15A Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
Tel: 01 278 7022 / 087 6538202
email: josie.mahon@erfb.ie
Website: www.fishingireland.net Email:info@erfb.ie
Fisheries Awareness Week is being held from 29th August – 5th September. Its aim is to introduce more people to angling through a series of events that are being run around the country by the Central and Regional Fisheries Boards. For further information please visit: www.cfb.ie
The Dublin Angling Initiative was set up in 1995. Its principle aims are to promote, develop and improve angling in the Dublin and Greater Dublin area and is sponsored by the Eastern Regional Fisheries Board. During the summer months the main work of the initiative is taking young people from National and Secondary schools, summer projects and youth services throughout Dublin City Centre and its suburbs on fishing courses. Already thousands of young people have been introduced to the joys of sea, coarse and game angling at the venues that are accessible by bus and rail from Dublin City centre.
The Eastern Regional Fisheries Board is a statutory authority whose function is to conserve, develop, protect, manage and promote the inland fisheries and sea angling resources within its jurisdiction. The Region extends from the border in Northern Ireland to South of the Wexford coast and includes all catchments which enter the sea between these boundaries. For further information, please visit www.fishingireland.net
The ‘Something Fishy’ project is developed by the Central and Regional Fisheries Boards in association with Blackrock Education Centre and has proved a highly successful way of encouraging young people to take an interest in Irish fish species, their local environment and habitat.