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Saturday clinic to teach migrant farmworker youths basic fishing skills
NAPLES
— In recognition of National Wildlife Refuge Week, the Collier County
Sea Grant Extension Agent has partnered with the Ten Thousand Islands
Panther National Wildlife Refuge and Port of the Islands Marina to host
a Kids Fishing Clinic.
The Kids Fishing Clinic is for 50 migrant farmworker youth between the
ages seven and 13. It will be hosted on Oct. 4 from 9 a.m. to noon.
The kids will rotate through a series of stations that focus on basic
fishing skills and stewardship practices (i.e., knot tying,
casting, following fishing regulations, catch and release practices
etc).
Following the skills stations, the children will get the opportunity to
fish along the banks of the marina. Port of the Island Marina is
donating bait and providing lunch for the participants.
Fish Florida provided a grant to University Extension Services to
provide fishing poles and mini-tackle boxes for the kids. The children
will be able to keep these supplies to use at their leisure and to
practice their fishing skills. Additionally, this fun excursion will
give the kids free educational handouts profiling safe fishing
practices.
Several volunteers from the Marco Island Sport Fishing Club will be
assisting with the program as well as marine officers from the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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