tom forsell
Victoria University, Sport and Exercise Science, Faculty Member
Research Interests:
Sport and Recreation Victoria (SRV), part of the Department for Victorian Communities, in conjunction with the Brotherhood of St Laurence conducted a two day intensive fishing program in 2003 for people at Howmans Gap near Falls Creek, in... more
Sport and Recreation Victoria (SRV), part of the Department for Victorian Communities, in conjunction with the Brotherhood of St Laurence conducted a two day intensive fishing program in 2003 for people at Howmans Gap near Falls Creek, in North Eastern Victoria. The group included thirteen adult jobseekers (nine males and four females) with four of the participants being refugees from Bosnia and China. The majority (nine) were aged between thirty and fifty years and four under thirty years of age. The Program, based on a State Government supported Schools Recreational Fishing Program, Get Hooked... It's fun to Fish focused on teaching basic fishing skills, equipment, knots, specie identification, and environmental awareness and was an important component of a State Government policy commitment to increase participation in recreational fishing.