Hi, our names are Sasha (age 12), Adriana (12) and Isabella (age 12) and we are the founding members of the Yellow Eyed Devils Juniors. YED Jrs is part of the Yellow Eyed Devils Kayak Fishing Club based out of NY/NJ area, started by our parents Brad C. and Al H.
We wanted to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves to this great community.
Over 300 million tons of plastic is produced globally each year and only about 10% of that is recycled. Of the non-recycled plastic, it is estimated that approximately 7 million tons end up in the sea each year. In our effort to help this problem, we started our "Clean Our Water" campaign.
“Clean our Waters” is a campaign that focuses in raising awareness among kayak fishermen and communities to help reduce the pollution of our oceans.
In May 2017, with the support of local businesses and the event coordinators, we’ve successfully ran our first “contest”. Jamaica Bay Kayak Fishing Classic is NYC’s largest catch and release kayak fishing tournament with over 300 registered anglers and the response has been amazing.
Our contest was quite simple, to motivate the registered kayak anglers to collect flotsam and trash during the course of the tournament. Local businesses sponsored us with the prizes for the three contestants who contributed the most in our campaign.
We are proud to say that our first event was a huge success as were able to collect over 1300 lbs of trash and flotsam from the Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge during the 3 days of the event!
Here's a quick write-up on the On The Water magazine blog site of our event
Our next event is at the New England Kayak Fishing Striper Shootout XI this coming August. We are now 7 members strong with 4 new friends joining us in our efforts.
Our goal is to continue this effort and spread awareness to kayak anglers and the communities.
We also hope to be able to take this across the country and continue to raise awareness nationwide.
Please be sure to visit us and follow us in
Facebook and show your support.
We would also love to hear from everyone for any ideas or suggestions in our ongoing campaign.
Thank you,
Sasha, Adriana & Isabella
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