“How I Use Project WET: Fishing for Success in Newfoundland and Labrador”
By KIMBERLY ORREN • FALL, 2015
A Canadian not-for-profit and member of Project WET Canada, Fishing for Success at Island Rooms of Petty Harbour aims to teach youth and tourists about the natural and cultural heritage of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador through the re-creation of traditional family inshore fishing practices. In a recent issue of the Canadian Water Resources Association magazine WaterNews, Kimberly Orren, the project manager and founding director of Fishing for Success, explained why water education is a core part of their mission. “If we are going to hitch kids with nature
through fishing, we need to connect with what they are learning in the classroom before (and after!) youth come out to Fishing for Success,” she notes in her following guest post, an adaptation of the WaterNews article. “Increasing kids’ contact time with water education through Project WET instruction in the classroom contributes to the success of our own aquatic education program.”…
