Fishing Licensing Exams?

[MichaelAngelo]

Sad to hear about Grenadier pond and makes me wonder if proper education about leaving stray fishing line could have prevented this. Information about the impact of leaving stray fishing line could be made required reading for obtaining a fishing licence - it makes sense to me. Also, a regulation about abandoning fishing line wouldn't hurt.

If fishing line is especially damaging to wildlife, then it should be made especially clear that it is not to be left behind. To many, it's common sense not to leave your garbage on the bank... but not to everyone.

In California, there are special waste disposal buckets labeled specifically for fishing line.

This can become part of fishing culture and maybe the regulations. It has to be forced to the parents of this generation in order to become natural for the children to come. This is progress, it would not hurt to begin teaching fishing regulations just as they teach hunting regulations.