Education
Effects of fishing education programs on antecedents of responsible environmental behaviors
Date:
2001
Journal:
The Journal of Environmental Education, 32(4), 23-29.
The authors surveyed 619 participants in a national fishing education program (Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs) designed for youth in Grades 6-8. The survey of the youth assessed fishing and aquatic stewardship outcomes associated with different levels of program exposure (i.e., no program, programs without fishing, and programs with fishing). Youth who participated in programs that included experience-based fishing were more likely to report several desired fishing and stewardship outcomes.
The Trout Unlimited Experience Teaching Aquatic Stewardship to Youth
Date:
2007
Journal:
American Fisheries Society Symposium [Am. Fish. Soc. Symp.]. Vol. 55, pp. 79-84.
Trout Unlimited (TU) is a private, nonprofit organization with more than 150,000 members dedicated to conserving, protecting, and restoring trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds in North America. TU staff and volunteer members engage in education programs, restoration projects, advocacy campaigns, and other conservation activities in support of the organization's mission. In 2001, TU launched a new national initiative named First Cast to teach students the principles of coldwater resource stewardship through the skills of fly-fishing.
