How Fishing Helps the Environment

One of the great joys of fishing is the sense of wonder you see on young children’s faces when they catch there first fish.  It doesn’t matter if it is just the humble minnow or something more substantial the light is there.  Fishing is a sport that teaches from an early age some of life’s most wonderful lessons.  You can show that young mind the beauty of nature and start to develop a respect for what we have and what we can lose. 

As a lifelong angler I have seen many changes to our lakes streams and rivers some very good some bad.  I believe that thanks to a sport and the vast majority of the people who participate in it.  We can all now enjoy cleaner less polluted waterways with the knock on effect that more and more species of plant and animal life are thriving.  I attribute this in no small way to how we where educated by our parents friends or relatives to the joys of fishing and the respect we have learned for nature.

So to this new generation we must keep to these standards and encourage and inspire our young to appreciate and enjoy the joys of fishing.  This way we can continue the good work and more and more of our waters will benefit giving us the angler more places and opportunities to practise the sport we love. 

To the non anglers out there who spend many hours of there spare time helping to keep our waters clean our thanks must go.  In particular to those hardy souls who have worked so hard to reclaim the Grantham to Nottingham canal.  They have worked wonders and much work has been done.  So much more still needs to be done and more volunteers are always welcome.  This and so many other schemes all over the country are working to reclaim lost waterways they deserve our support either with physical help or monetary.  We will all benefit whether it is by cleaner drinking water or a wonderfull place to walk.