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Wigan Observer Newspaper piece on Paul Kenyon's Trout in the Town project

Some very nice positive coverage here in the local newspaper for the Wigan Trout in the Town activities: CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW FULL SIZE

Healthy Floodplains and Reduced Flood Risk

An important video from Trout Headwaters.com - The amount of damage caused by the floodwaters on the Otter Creek associated with Hurricane Irene was worse where there was access to healthy wetlands and floodplains was reduced. http://troutheadwaters.com/clubecoblu/?p=3393

Salford's Friendly Anglers and their Community

Last year key people from SUBSTANCE social research co-operative: http://www.substance.coop/ and the Get Hooked On Fishing project: http://www.ghof.org.uk/ and myself put a LOT of work into an extensive funding bid to the Big Lottery Fund. The idea behind it was to generate interest, interaction and greater care of urban river corridors in the communities living close to them. This expands upon the excellent achievements of GHOF that uses coarse fishing activities to train up "peer mentors" who then coach people their own age in angling skills and achieve accreditation that helps them into careers in angling. They have been able to report significant successes in reduction of antisocial behaviour and many benefits to the life-choices made by participants in the scheme. Some of the most comprehensive evidence for these successes was gathered through the involvement of SUBSTANCE as part of their huge research project covering " The Social and Community Benefits of Angl