{"id":30156,"date":"2020-02-19T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=30156"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:31:31","slug":"youth-fishing-rodeos-scheduled-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/02\/19\/youth-fishing-rodeos-scheduled-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Fishing Rodeos Scheduled for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i>Program Rounds Up Next Generation of Anglers<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/809\/41340361601_982d1d66b3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of father and daughter fishing at a rodeo\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 4,000 children and young adults will have the opportunity to catch their first taste of fishing thanks to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and partner organizations throughout the state. From early spring to fall, the state will host 41 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/youth\/rodeo_list.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">youth fishing rodeos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 14 counties.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThese kid-friendly fishing events connect Maryland\u2019s youth to the sport of fishing in a safe and interactive environment,\u201d said DNR Youth Fishing Coordinator Michael Anderson. \u201cOur partner organizations are really the ones who deserve the credit. They help organize, staff, and build relationships with these kids to become not only anglers, but stewards of our natural resources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To ensure participants have the opportunity to reel in a catch, the department will raise and supply thousands of hybrid sunfish, channel catfish, and rainbow trout for this year\u2019s fishing rodeos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/youth\/rodeo.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">youth fishing rodeo program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> receives financial support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All youth fishing rodeo events are free and open to the public; the list of events is posted on the department\u2019s website. Due to space limitations at some venues, attendees should call the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/youth\/rodeo_list.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> individual event\u2019s contact<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to assure space is available.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program Rounds Up Next Generation of Anglers More than 4,000 children and young adults will have the opportunity to catch their first taste of fishing thanks to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and partner organizations throughout the state. From early spring to fall, the state will host 41 youth fishing rodeos in 14 counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[5044,2972],"class_list":["post-30156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-fishing","tag-youth-fishing-rodeo-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30158,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30156\/revisions\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}