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Published:
August 6th, 2008
Exclusive: £30,000 funding boost for Highbridge's Apex Wildlife
Park
 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
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