1. Hunting and Fishing
By Dylan Hopkins

2. What Do You Know About Hunting and
Fishing?
• It’s done worldwide
• It’s been around since the
beginning of mankind.

3. What is it?
Hunting Fishing
• The killing or trapping of • The catching of fish.
wild animals. • Reasons for Fishing:
• Some of the reasons for Industry/Job, recreational
hunting are food, sport and hobby.
recreational sport and
tradition.

4. What is My Opinion?
• Thesis: Even though environmentalists have
claimed that hunting and fishing hurts the
environment in an extreme way these problems
can be fixed, if the laws are obeyed, trash is
cleaned up and environmentally friendly gear
is used.

5. Laws
• The California Department of Fish and Game recently, as of
2013, released a new document with all of the updated hunting
and fishing laws.

6. Laws that help protect the
environment
• “No person shall pursue a game animal while
being driven in a motor-driven land or air
vehicle, motorboats, sailboats, or
snowmobiles.” (California Department of
Fish and Game, 2013)
• This law does not allow hunters to hunt
animals from a moving vehicle and it makes
it more of a challenge.

7. Laws that help protect the
environment (cont.)
• “No angler is allowed to take any more fish than the
legal bag limit.”(California Department of Fish and
Game, 2013)
• This law is strongly enforced and any violators
will be given a large fine. This law also prevents
the over harvesting of fish and other animals.

8. Does hunting and fishing permanently
damage the environment?
Answers • As you can see, the
Maybe No answers were pretty
Yes, definitely I don't know
even, but “maybe” had
the most.
19%
28% • Most people probably
don’t know a lot about
this project.
29%
24%

9. Fishing and Hunting Gear
• The biggest problem with fishing and hunting is the use of
chemicals such as lead that can pollute the environment.
• This problem can be fixed by using alternatives such as
tungsten, steel, copper and brass.
Lead Sinker

10. Alternatives
Tungsten
Steel

11. Why would something like sinkers
affect the environment?
• The most common way is when your fishing
and your line snaps then the sinker gets left
under-water.
• By using alternatives the left over gear will not
pollute the environment.

12. Graph
Have you ever hunted wild • This chart is showing
game before?
that a good percentage
Yes
60
(54%) of the class have been
50 hunting before.
40 No
(32%)
30
20 I Don't
Know
10
(14%)
0

13. Conclusion
• If hunting and fishing laws are obeyed then the
environment will not be permanently damaged.
Alternatives to the chemical lead can help
protect the overall health of the environment.
Many of the environmental problems that are
being talked about can be fixed with a little bit
of work.

14. What the Heck Was That?

15. Works Cited
• Works Cited
• "Does Hunting Help or Hurt the Environment?"
Scientific American 10 November 2009.
• "Environmental Effects of Lead Used in Hunting
and Fishing." Environmental News Network 11
July 2008.
• "Hunting and Fishing Laws ." California
Department of Fish and Game 1 January 2013.

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