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Smart Angler
As an Angler, you may be surprised to learn the future of fishing depends a lot on you.
Smart Angler is the Snook Foundation’s commitment to providing the most current & accurate information to help anglers wisely shape the future for this and many other inshore species. Applying new knowledge is key to inshore species survival -- it also makes fishing more fun!
Now Online!
Are you up for the SmartAngler Challenge? Test your knowledge and skills as sportsmen and women. Thanks to The Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program, Berkley Conservation Institute, Fish & Wildlife Research Institute, DOA Lures, Starbrite, Shallowfish.com, Rexford Taylor, and many other individuals who are donating their time, talent and resources to make this program possible. [link1] [p][link2]
photo: hornetbear.com
Protect Habitat!
While adult snook can flourish in rivers, bays, along beaches or on off-shore reefs, juveniles must have specific habitat in order to survive and mature. From 1973 to 1996. Florida’s Atlantic Coast mangrove shield declined by more than 39 percent and the Gulf Coast lost 26 percent. A definite correlation exists between declining populations of juvenile snook and rapidly disappearing tidal creeks, mangrove overhang and seagrass meadows. Find out [link2] as an individual.
photo: Janet Sellers
Keep Learning!
The best way to help snook is to practice good fishing ethics, remain abreast of emerging problems and the policies being developed to address them, and voice your opinion to effect decisions benefiting snook. [link1]
photo by Adrian Grey
Increase Release Survival!
Click [link1] to learn how. Regulations aim to maximize stock abundance, but anglers who fish with skill make the biggest difference. Here are some ideas that will help you catch more fish today and save a much higher percentage for your kids tomorrow. First and foremost, go fishing for fun…[link2].
