Claude found this interesting research paper undertaken by Curtin University’s Centre of Excellence for Science, Seafood and Health. The key findings were summarised as:<\/p>\n
considerable health and well-being benefits can be <\/em>gained through involvement in recreational fishing. Encouraging young children, <\/em>youth, adults and families to fish offers a cost effective and healthful outdoor <\/em>recreational activity that can be enjoyed throughout life. Benefits were evident for <\/em>individuals and groups. Recreational fishing was also noted to provide significant <\/em>benefits to children and youth with behavioural and mental health issues. Finally, <\/em>educational strategies that focus on how to minimise the environmental impacts of <\/em>recreational fishing can ensure today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s recreational fishers are aware <\/em>of sustainable fishing practices.<\/em><\/p>\n The original piece is available at the university’s website<\/a>, specifically here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Claude found this interesting research paper undertaken by Curtin University’s Centre of Excellence for Science, Seafood and Health. The key findings were summarised as: considerable health and well-being benefits can be gained through involvement in recreational fishing. Encouraging young children, youth, adults and families to fish offers a cost effective and healthful outdoor recreational activity that can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-lV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}