Highbridge’s Apex Willdlife Park is to get a £30,000 cash injection to develop it into one of the west country’s leading angling facilities.
Burnham-On-Sea.com can reveal the park has been picked to receive £25,000 of funding from the Environment Agency and a further £5,000 from Sedgemoor District Council towards creating a range of new angling facilities.
A total of 21 new fishing platforms are to be constructed around the main fishing lake and two new islands are to be formed to protect fish and encourage breeding.
“This is great news for the park,” Iain Turner, the Environment Agency’s Fisheries Technical Officer for the Wessex Area, pictured above, told Burnham-On-Sea.com.
“It’s a real boost which will greatly improve the park’s fishing facilities and encourage more anglers to visit there.”
The improvements are scheduled to begin during the next few weeks and be completed in September.
The news comes just days after the agency held a special ‘learn to fish day’ at Apex Park on Sunday (August 3rd) when budding anglers were able to find out more about the sport.
Mr Turner said: “The day was a great success with over 180 people coached and we’ve had nothing but positive feedback. The rain didn’t do anything to deter visitors. We had a good mixture of those having a go at fishing for the first time, all the way to those who were a bit more experienced and wanting to perfect their technique.”
Pictured above are Iain Turner, Graham Hull and Michael Hull, 4, who caught this 5lb fish at the wildlife park on Sunday
