{"id":4962,"date":"2019-12-20T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2019-12-20T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:18:53","slug":"fishing-is-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/2019\/12\/20\/fishing-is-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing is for Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fishing is one of the most popular recreational activities in Australia.\u00a0So many of us are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to get outdoors and wet a line at the drop of a hat. However, there are a number of barriers that stop people with disabilities from being able to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After many years of conducting informal all ability fishing clinics, <a href=\"https:\/\/fishcare.org.au\">Fishcare Victoria<\/a> has received funding from recreational licence fees to run a structured &#8220;All Ability Clinics &#8211; Fishing is for Everyone!&#8221; program. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the two year program, Fishcare will develop and trial a program to deliver 100 \u2018fishing for all abilities clinics\u2019 in the Kingston, Bayside, Hobsons Bay and Port Phillip Council areas.\u00a0 The All Abilities Clinics kick off in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fishcare.org.au\/all-ability-clinics\/\">&#8220;All Ability Clinics &#8211; Fishing is for Everyone!&#8221;<\/a> program will aim to:<br>\u2022 increase the active involvement of people with disabilities into recreational fishing through coordinated and regular fishing events<br>\u2022 partner with government, agencies, local councils and organisations and develop strategic cooperative arrangements<br>\u2022 promote responsible fishing practices as well as rules and regulations to participants and caregivers<br>\u2022 be advocates in promoting inclusive participation in recreational fishing<br>\u2022 be a key delivery partner in the State Government \u2013 <em>Fishing for All <\/em>initiative<br><br>To register your interest or for more information, please contact Elysia Gustafson \u2013 Fishcare&#8217;s All Ability Facilitator at egustafson@fishcarevictoria.org.au or on 0423 588 345<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the Fishcare website for more information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/fishcare.org.au\/all-ability-clinics\/\">All Ability Clinics.<\/a>The 2020 All Abilities Calendar has been released, see below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"635\" height=\"895\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vrfish.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/02180520\/79873045_1562556007215551_4947878582136340480_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vrfish.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/02180520\/79873045_1562556007215551_4947878582136340480_n.jpg 635w, https:\/\/media.vrfish.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/02180520\/79873045_1562556007215551_4947878582136340480_n-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing is one of the most popular recreational activities in Australia.\u00a0So many of us are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to get outdoors and wet a line at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[511,57,514,515],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4966,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/4966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}