Trout Book Angles for Children Who Care

An Illustrated book being sent to primary schools across Scotland will help children as young as five learn the importance of looking after their natural environment.

The Brown Trout Big Book is being distributed by the Salmon and Trout Association, to encourage children to begin thinking about the environment from an early age.

Each page depicts the life cycle of the fish and shows the different human pressures on their habitat.

A classroom guide will encourage children to interact with the lesson, answering questions, writing poetry and making up a newspaper report.

The colourful book will be read by pupils in 2,300 primary schools throughout Scotland. A Gaelic version will also be distributed to certain schools.

Ruth Bowman, a teacher at Dunnottar Primary, said: “With the illustrations the book looks lovely. It will help us with our projects this year.”

Sponsors for the project include Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Aberdeen-based contractor Technip.

Paul Knight, director of the Salmon and Trout Association, said: “We are delighted to have been able to publish this most evocative and imaginative book, which marks a new venture for us, into educational publishing.

“The book is designed to help children learn about the aquatic environment as well as the social, economic and especially the environmental benefits of healthy stocks of wild brown trout, Scotland’s most numerous and widespread freshwater fish.”

The association is hoping to follow up the book with others highlighting other water and fish-based environmental issues.

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