{"id":4343,"date":"2023-06-29T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:37:43","slug":"news-fishing-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/news-fishing-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Fellow Spreads Awareness Through Fishing Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chryston Best-Otubu<\/a> is a Ph.D. student and NOAA EPP LMRCSC fellow at the University of Miami. He started a successful fishing club in February 2022, and it has since grown to include 20 graduate students.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince coming to the University of Miami, friends and mentors have told me amazing stories about the freshwater and saltwater fishing opportunities in South Florida,\u201d Chryston said. He began exploring the local environment and was exposed to new ways of fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI became so enamored with the bounty of South Florida, and when talking to non-fishing friends, who expressed keen interest in the sport but did not know where to begin, I tried looking into a fishing club,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Chryston found no existing club, he started his own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Miami Fishing Club aims to educate students unfamiliar with fishing and encourage them to embrace it as a hobby, build connections, and encourage sustainable fishing practices and environmental responsibility through hands-on club expeditions and seminars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chryston said the club helps his doctoral research by exposing him to the state of the ecosystem more often. Because of his research, Chryston is familiar with problems that can arise from recreational fishing, including few or no regulations on harvest for some vulnerable species and environmental challenges leading to habitat fragmentation and loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEducation is an integral part of the solution. If someone does not see or understand the impact of habitat loss or overfishing on these recreational\/commercial species, how can they gain a holistic view of such a complex issue?\u201d Chryston said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention, it\u2019s a lot of fun to see the smile on someone’s face when they catch their first fish, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chryston Best-Otubu is a Ph.D. student and NOAA EPP LMRCSC fellow at the University of Miami. He started a successful fishing club in February 2022, and it has since grown to include 20 graduate students.\u00a0 \u201cSince coming to the University of Miami, friends and mentors have told me amazing stories about the freshwater and saltwater…Read more Ph.D. Fellow Spreads Awareness Through Fishing Club<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}