Looks like the US government doesn’t have a monopoly on spending money on goofy things.
Wanted: More women, minorities for fishing
LONDON, April 2 (UPI) — The British government is spending $33 million for a 10-year campaign to attract more minorities and women to fishing.
About 4 million people enjoy a quiet afternoon on the river bank each year, but the government has determined that today’s fishermen are too white, too male and too middle-aged, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The Environment Agency will use money raised each year by the sale of fishing licenses to pay for a new leaflet entitled “10 things you should know about angling.”
“Angling does not discriminate against gender, race, age or athletic ability” and the “Government is interested in angling in the context of social inclusion in deprived urban areas,” the leaflet says.
There are also pilot programs, such as an effort in Swansea that taught Muslim women and children to fish by experts from the Salmon and Trout Association.
Critics of the program say the funds would be better spent on increasing biodiversity in rivers by safeguarding otters, kingfishers and native crayfish instead of “socially engineering” fishing.
There is no end to a government’s ability to waste money.
Blacks do go fishing but they use glocks instead of poles.
While you don’t see a lot of black hunters in the mid-west (which makes sense, I wouldn’t want to be a black man running around the woods with a bunch of heavily armed drunk rednecks)… there are a lot of black people who fish. I wonder why it’s different in the UK.
There are probably more black fishermen in my area – Annapolis, MD – than white fishermen. Crabs are oftentimes holding onto the pilings at the Annapolis dock, and they’re the ones taking nets and getting their dinner.
It is odd that more blacks in the U.K. don’t fish, especially since a large percentage of them came from fishing nations.
Indians and Pakistani’s that live in the U.K. usually aren’t from a fishing culture, so that may be why there aren’t many of them found out on the salmon runs.