What Lead To The Research? Motivations & Inspirations
I have been fishing these
areas
for many years, in and around Kenton-on-sea, where my parents built a
house in the late 1980's. I have a strong loving connection to this town
and the areas surrounding it. At a young age my father introduced me to
fishing, and since then it's been a never ending quest for
fish
species. I have always been a conservationist at heart and after
witnessing some distressing things: People keeping more fish than they
are supposed to, the poor releasing methods of fish landed, the locals
keeping everything they catch disregarding
size and bag limits,
and people keeping rare or slow growing fish; this motivated me to try
raise awareness and conduct my own research on all things relating to
fish, in the area I have known since I was a few months old. This is my
passion and if I can somehow give something back to the ocean in any
form, or get the message across to as many people as possible, this long
term research project will be worth it!
Many
people have been full of support of this project and I cannot thank them
enough. I want to see the return of the large fish that
were caught on a daily basis off the shore in this area in the 1970's
and before; I want to see
people releasing as much as they can but most importantly, I want to
show the World what this area means to so many people, including myself,
the natural beauty and the sheer abundance of the marine and terrestrial
life that occur here, and how we take them for granted. I hope you will
follow this research project and understand the passion that I am
putting into this to ensure "my home" stays the way it is for years to
come!
Gareth Roocroft - Fish The Sea
