The NEFGA Fishing Line Recycling Program - INFO!!

[Catfishsteve]

The NEFGA Fishing Line Recycling program was started in early 2008. The idea came from one of our members who had seen it done in other places around the country and thought it would be a good fit for the Nebraska Fish and Game Association.

The program works through clubs, companies and other concerned outdoor's folks sponsoring fishing line recycling bins which we than place and staff for line collection at public lakes and parks around the state.
Canfield's, Scheels Sports in Omaha and the Crete Youth in Governance Council are a few of our current active sponsors that helped get this program off the ground. In 2008, we placed 24 bins at lakes and parks.

In the fall of 2008, we gathered up all the line collected from the bins and sent back 4 nearly full shipping boxes of line back to Berkley for recycling into underwater fish habit, which Berkley then makes available for placement in lakes to enhance the fisheries.



For information on how you can sponsor fishing line recycling bins in your area or serve as a line collection volunteer, please PM me, Catfishsteve, through the forum or email me at Steve.Wagle@nefga.org.