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Mark. H. V. Corps
Angling Advisor &
Educational Outreach coordinator
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Youth Angling
Initiatives
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Current IFI initiatives
• Something Fishy
• Dublin Angling Initiative
• Fisheries Awareness Week
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Something Fishy
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• 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
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• 2010 / 11 - 163 schools took part Some 4000 students
• 2011 / 12 - 126 schools took part Just over 3000 students
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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
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Fisheries Awareness Week
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• 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
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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
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• 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’
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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’
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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
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• Divert people away from anti-social behaviour so reducing crime to create safer communities
• Support participants wishing to gain recognised qualifications in angling
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• 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
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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.
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Game angling course modules1. History of Angling & the Game
Species2. Angling Equipment3. Fly Fishing (Casting & Tactics)4. Water Safety5. Angling & Wildlife Law6. Angling & Environmental Law.7. Fly Tying8. Insects & creatures of the aquatic
environment
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Modules
• Work Journal
• Practical Skills Assessment
• Module Exam
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Questions?