Life Scout, member of the Order of the Arrow, Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Lisa T.S. Kitagawa recently completed her Eagle Scout project that has benefited the Pacific Fisheries Enhancement Foundation (“PacFish”), CCA-CAL supports PacFish as part of CCA-CAL’s mission for fishing conservation, habitat and science for sportfishing. Her project replaced the screens on all sixteen (16) wood pen covers of the PacFish pens in Newport Harbor. PacFish is an integral and key organization in fishing conservation and science and provides, maintains and supports harbor pens to raise juvenile white sea bass and other species to grow in a natural environment, acclimate to local ocean temperature and salinity, reduce the risk of temperature shock and improve their survival when they are released into the ocean. PacFish raises juvenile white sea bass for several months in their harbor pens, then sportfishing boats and volunteers transport and release them into the ocean to help replenish the dwindling native population and increase the white sea bass population. CCA CAL and the Balboa Angling Club (BAC) members volunteer and support PacFish by feeding the juvenile fish and maintaining the PacFish pens. Click here to view more photos.
Thanks to CCA-CAL’s events, she met Dr. Barbara Block, and toured the Hubbs-Seaworld Research Institute halibut hatchery. Lisa’s mother, a Japanese-American lawyer and fishing fanatic taught her how to fish, and both she and her mother are CCA-CAL Lifetime Members. CCA CAL and the Balboa Angling Club (BAC) members volunteer and support PacFish by feeding the juvenile fish and maintaining the PacFish pens. Click here to view more photos.
Thanks to the support of CCA CAL and the Balboa Angling Club (“BAC”), Irvine Troop 606, generous donors, dedicated and hardworking scouts and adult volunteers completed all 16 PacFish covers. She successfully raised $3,400 in donations for her Eagle Scout Project for the benefit of PacFish. After completion of her Eagle Scout Project costs, she will donate approximately $1,600 to PacFish.
Thanks to the support of CCA-CAL and Daveys Locker, these same scout volunteers and their parents are also new fishing fans and new anglers who went fishing on the Oct 2020 Irvine Troop 606 Fishing Merit Badge trip.
Thanks to BAC President Casey McCann and volunteers Julie DeLucia, Bryan Lojeski, James Partridge and James Updike who worked hard all day long to transport the sixteen (16) bulky 4 ft. X 8 ft. pen covers to and from the PacFish NB Pen and the BAC parking lot. This Eagle Scout Project would not have been possible without the Balboa Angling Club’s support, volunteers and Mr. McCann’s boat the “Fin & Tonic.” All of the Scout volunteers were Asians (Japanese and Chinese Americans) and included boys and girls. Thanks to the support of CCA-CAL and Daveys Locker, these same scout volunteers and their parents are also new fishing fans and new anglers who went fishing on the Oct 2020 Irvine Troop 606 Fishing Merit Badge trip. The scouts enjoyed using power tools and other tools. The Scouts and adult volunteers worked hard as a team to build this project together. The Scouts learned how to build something real, physical and tangible as part of their community service.
Kitagawa‘s father and brother are both Eagle Scouts and she aspires to be among the first year that girls are eligible to become Eagle Scouts. She must now prepare the accounting, write a report, schedule interviews, complete her Eagle Scout application, pass the Scoutmaster’s conference and the District Eagle Board of Review. She is thrilled that her Eagle Scout Project will assist with CCA-CAL’s mission of fishing conservation and sportfishing by replenishing white sea bass and other fish populations so sportfishing can be enjoyed by future generations.
She thanks CCA-CAL (especially Bill Shedd, Bob Kurz, Wayne Kotow and Chris Arechaederra ) for their leadership, advocacy, encouragement, cooperation and support of education, conservation and sportfishing.
