FOOGI Family Fishing Festival at Fellsmere Pond a Great Success

By Karen Colón Hayes

What an incredible turnout at the FOOGI Family Fishing Festival at Fellsmere Pond held on Saturday, April 13th.

The Mass Wildlife’s Angler Education Program gave lessons to many families who have never fished before! FOOGI volunteers made sure the atmosphere was fun and educational. The girl and boy scouts were on hand to help clean up and make sure we left things as we found them, so no harm was done to wildlife. We also had our local wildlife rehabilitator, Linda Amato, educating the community on the dangers of using rat poison (when there are other options) that will harm or kill our birds of prey who are key in controlling our rodent population.

It was a really fun day and we look forward to next year! Thank you again to FOOGI for continuing to bring new and different community building events to Malden.

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