Protecting Public Waters: BHA's Capital Chapter partners with the Boy Scouts of America

  Monofilament fishing line is an environmental hazard, which can cause harm by entangling wildlife, tangling and jamming boat props and polluting fisheries across the country. The strength properties we value in fishing line that help us to land those lunker bass are the same properties that require more than 600 years to break down in the environment.  It is vital that we increase the uptake of recycling of used line and commit to disposing of it correctly. Even in a landfill, discarded ...