The online sport fishing community Vangstenregistratie.nl is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. In this article I will share my experiences on the creation of this successful community and the recently launched Vangsten app. How did this community come about? And why does the app change people's
Anglers can register, analyse and share their catches on Vangstenregistratie.nl . The site is not only fun for anglers, but the collective catch data is also used by angling organisations, included in provincial fish atlases and supplied to the china phone number list Ministry of EL&I. Marked fish are regularly caught and reported back to angling or nature organisations. In 2010 and 2011, registered fish of a few centimetres were reason for water managers to start research.
On October 31, 2011, the Vangsten app was launched: a mobile derivative of the site, with which you can register and share your catch and fish photo directly from the water. Within a few days, it was in the pockets of more than 1000 fishermen. For me, the app feels like the most important development in a project I started 10 years ago.