{"id":2261,"date":"2023-05-31T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2023-05-31T21:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T02:00:27","slug":"wsa-npaa-conservation-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"WSA &#038; NPAA Conservation Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our organization and the National Professional Anglers Association are now working\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">together as conservation partners. According to Jerry Pasdo, WSA president, &#8220;the relationship <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will offer benefits to members of both organizations, as well as the gamefish we seek.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPAA membership is composed of professional guides, tournament anglers, angler\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">educators and sportfishing\/marine industry professionals who are passionate about the sport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pat Neu, NPAA executive director, noted that &#8220;helping educate current and future\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">generations of fishers, both recreational and professional, will ultimately help the resource we\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">both want to support.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPAA&#8217;s contacts in the traditional press as well as social media will give WSA more reach\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for its Proper Catch &amp; Release program. Likewise, WSA can assist with NPAA&#8217;s future fishers\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">education effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooperation between the two organizations will cost neither one any funds in building a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">better future for angling. We will keep you posted as we move ahead with specific programs.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Board Member Gene Kroupa was very instrumental in coordinating this partnership<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our organization and the National Professional Anglers Association are now working\u00a0 together as conservation partners. According to Jerry Pasdo, WSA president, &#8220;the relationship will offer benefits to members of both organizations, as well as the gamefish we seek.\u201d\u00a0 NPAA membership is composed of professional guides, tournament anglers, angler\u00a0educators and sportfishing\/marine industry professionals who are passionate <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/?p=2261\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisconsinsmallmouth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}