“Brazil meets unparalleled conditions for the practice of sport/recreational fishing, having astonishing river basins, 8,500 km of coastline and impressive quantity and variety of sport fishes from fresh and salt water, being a worldwide showcase of the activity. The Eco Estrela Project, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, presents itself as an intelligent solution for promotion of sport/recreational fishing tourism in the region and attraction of other investments, which certainly will provide income generation to the local population and improvement of social conditions, and all this with the necessary protection of the local environment. The enterprise and its organizers are to be congratulated! Brazil thanks”
The National Association of Ecology and Sport Fishing - ANEPE, headquartered in the city of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, is the national entity, a non-profit association, which represents the interests of sport fishermen and the Brazilian market of sport fishing. It has as members the fishermen and companies of segment (industry, trade and services, including tourism). Its main purpose is the promotion, dissemination and fostering of sport-recreational fishing, as important tool for income generation and social gains, environmentally sustainable. ANEPE assists and subsidizes the executive and legislative authorities in the creation of regulatory benchmarks and in the design of projects that will promote and stimulate social and economic development of the entire sector, so as to create conditions to attract tourism and business of sport/recreational amateur fishing, with the consequent development of regions with fishing potential.