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Mobilizing the fly fishing community to create sustainable solutions to poverty & human trafficking

 
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What we're after

We exist to use our passion for fly fishing for a good and just cause. We formed Fly Fishing Collaborative to mobilize the world’s fly fishing and outdoor community to use the skills we have to provide women and children the protection and healing they need from the injustice of human trafficking. According to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), human trafficking is the world’s third largest enterprise after drugs and weapons. Over 2 million children are affected annually and studies show that children caught in human trafficking are victimized by 100-1500 perpetrators each year! The money we raise at our local fly fishing events, the selling of our FFC branded products, and through your generous giving is used to build sustainable Aquaponic Farms which provide resources to women and children who would otherwise become currency, literally needing to sell themselves as a livelihood, in a broken world.

 

Aquaponic Farming: An Incredibly Sustainable Closed-Loop System

 

“Aquaponics” is literally the combining of two worlds: Aquaculture (raising fish) and Hydroponics (soil-less growing of plants).

The fish live and grow in tanks below the plants which are suspended on floating raft platforms (or planted into small rock). These platforms allow the plant's roots to hang down; reaching deep into the water.

As the fish are fed by the Farm Managers and teams caring for them, they produce ammonia-rich waste. Amazingly, a special naturally occurring bacteria then turn the fish’s waste into nitrates which are absorbed by the plants as nutrients… or food. Even more amazing is that the fish inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, all the while the plants are absorbing the exhaled carbon which leaves oxygen-rich water for the fish.

As the cycle unfolds, the fish grow and can be eaten or sold. They're then replaced with new fish reared from previously laid eggs.

We're finding Aquaponic Farming to be an incredible tool to help those a part of developing or struggling nations. While feeding people is wonderful, giving them a self-sustaining system for food production that allows a more consistent and constant channel of provision offers another level of hope.

This is why we think Aquaponic Farming is incredible and are committed to continue building Farms around the world to create sustainable solutions to poverty and human trafficking. When you have what you need, you no longer have to sell what you love most just to survive.

 

Staff

 
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Bucky Buchstaber (Executive Director & Co-founder)

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Alyson Wells (Aquaponic Farm Director)

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+ Haley Bringuel (Administrative & Operations Coordinator)

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+ Lisa Boomer (Creative Director)

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+ Aaron Imhof (Contracted Aquaponics Construction Consultant)

 

Board Members

Bucky Buchstaber, Bryan Crumpler (Board Chair), Dave Sullivan, Paul Ridgway, Tony Overstake, Dominique Toews