7. • 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
8. • 2010 / 11 - 163 schools took part
Some 4000 students
• 2011 / 12 - 126 schools took part
Just over 3000 students
9.
10. 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
13. • 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
14.
15. 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
16. • 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’
17.
18. 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’
19. 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
20. • Divert people away from anti-social
behaviour so reducing crime to create
safer communities
• Support participants wishing to gain
recognised qualifications in angling
21. • 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
22. 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.
23.
24.
25. Game angling course modules
1. History of Angling & the Game Species
2. Angling Equipment
3. Fly Fishing (Casting & Tactics)
4. Water Safety
5. Angling & Wildlife Law
6. Angling & Environmental Law.
7. Fly Tying
8. Insects & creatures of the aquatic
environment
Introduce Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Something Fishy project. Please mention our partners the Education Centres. Some notes - The ‘Something Fishy’ Project was a concept conceived by staff of the Central Fisheries Board (CFB) in 2002. It was developed as collaboration between the CFB and Blackrock Education Centres (BEC). The creation of a schools education pack was the brief given to a team led by Marian Rollins. This team created lesson plans and activity sheets based on the theme of the ‘Life cycle of salmon’ - Bradán. Following the development of the Something Fishy pack BEC worked with the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire (IADT) to produce web based resources for the project. This led to the development of the Something Fishy web site - www.somethingfishy.ie Something Fishy was launched by Mary Hanafin TD (Minister for Education and Science), in 2004.Though educationally well received Something Fishy was not taken up by as many schools as originally hoped for. In discussions between the CFB and BEC it was decided promote the project to schools through the national network of Education Centres. This re launch of the project was planned to take place at the start of the academic year in September 2006 but was deferred due to the launch of another similar project at that time. In 2006 / 07 the project was further enhanced with three new elements being added to the project. Firstly ‘School visits and Field trips,’ the Regional Fisheries Boards (RFB’s) arranged field trips with the schools taking part in the project allowing students to get a ‘hands on’ experience This required liaison between the local schools coordinators and the RFB’s. Secondly a competition. All schools taking part in Something Fishy were asked to submit a project dealing with any aspect covered in the Something Fishy work. Prizes were awarded at RFB level with the best projects from each RFB going through to a national final. Finally named coordinators, one from the Fisheries Boards and one from the Education Centres.
