You may want to go fishing soon, right? Well I will be telling you about safety on water, how to look after our seabirds, catching fish and fun facts about fishing.
Fishing for the future is about looking after our sea. We need to fish for the future so in the future people can enjoy fishing like we do.
It is easy to keep safe on the water once you know how to. Firstly, you need to always wear a life jacket when on a boat, kayak or canoe so if it gets into trouble you will just start to bob up and down in the water. It is very important to teach students how to swim, so that when they go on a boat and it happens to tip over they can swim to safety.
No one wants to catch a seabird, right? Always bring a bucket of water on your boat if you’re going fishing to throw at the seabirds to scare them away, because seabirds like the smell of bait, If they happen to swop down into the water and eat the bait without knowing it has a hook inside they will die sadly. Make sure not to drop plastic in the water because birds think it is food and if they eat it they won’t be able to eat anything else. Share the message SOS save our seabirds.
When you going fishing don’t forget these things. Bring a ruler to measure the fish to make sure they are not too big or too small, for example snapper must be 30cms, you let go of small fish because they are babies and if you take them you are stopping them growing so they can’t reproduce and have babies, and you don’t take big ones because they might have eggs in their tummy, if you take the big fish you could be taking lots of babies too! You need to measure them from the middle of the tail to the nose. Also bring some ice on the boat so they can stay cold, make sure to remember if they are saltwater fish put them in salt ice so they don’t go off. When you catch a fish pick it up with a wet towel so you don’t rub of it’s scales.
You might be thinking how and why do we keep our seas clean. Make sure not to throw rubbish in the water or any where for that matter. Also please don’t feed seabirds because they could fly over the water and drop the food you gave them into the water causing it to pollute the water so the fish die. You do all these things to make sure that the fish don’t die.
Do you want to know some more fun facts about fish and fishing? Although jellyfish and crayfish have the word ‘fish’ in their name, they aren’t actually fish. Kaimoana is the Maori word for seafood. Did you know there are more than 3000 types of fish.
I hope you do all these things when you go fishing to keep the seabirds and fish safe.
Hi Sam,
ReplyDeleteI like your Hiwi the Kiwi writing. I enjoyed the facts that you wrote down. Very helpful information! I'll definitely follow what you've said. Have a great day,
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