Just a heads up for those urban fishing within the GTA. The Toronto Urban Fishing Ambassadors have installed these fishing line receptacles at most popular fishing spots. This is a good and safe way to dispose fishing line and they recycle it too. If you wanna learn more about it and know where they're located, check out their website...
www.facebook.com/groups/torontourbanfishingambassadors
www.torontourbanfishing.com
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GTA FISHING LINE RECEPTACLES PROVIDED BY THE TORONTO URBAN FISHING AMBASSADORS
Started by PUMP KNOWS, Jun 10 2014 07:58 AM
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PUMP KNOWS
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Rainbow Trout
Posted 10 June 2014 - 07:58 AM
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Posted 10 June 2014 - 10:26 AM
Hopefully people use them as intended. A great thing to try at any rate.
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Posted 10 June 2014 - 09:39 PM
Cool. Very nice to see
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Posted 14 June 2014 - 04:14 PM
LOL. The lower right pocket on my fishing vest is also a receptacle for discarded fishing line. I pick up yards and yards of it every time I go fishing. As I have said before that discarded line can be a death trap for fish or wild-life or birds. And pretty sure it is the "white bucket brigade" but I often come across line that must be 50 lb test or more along rivers. That could trip up an angler, and combined with waders and a strong current the results could be disasterous.
I strongly encourage everyone, if you find discarded line where you are fishing, ball it up and put it in you pocket and dispose of it properly and save lives!
I was unaware, but it makes sense that fishing line, at least mono would be recyclable. If I bag and mark it can I put it in my blue box? Also when I do get home and want to dispose of it I get the sissors out and cut it into tiny pieces so animals and birds at the dump cannot become entangled.
Alfie.
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Posted 30 June 2014 - 02:32 AM
I often come across line that must be 50 lb test or more along rivers. That could trip up an angler, and combined with waders and a strong current the results could be disasterous.
I never leave line out intentionally but I never thought of the situation you described.
Very smart idea to cut the line up.
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Posted 02 July 2014 - 09:00 PM
Its great to see the city doing something like this. BUT it would be even greater if these ignorant people would put them to use. I have seen trash from fishermen and the garbage bin would literally be 25 yards away. Whenever I have a bag on me its always full of other fishermen garbage, if you can even call them fishermen. But again it is a great movement towards a cleaner future
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