You’ve got to love it when a Department of Fish and Game gets on the forefront and releases a cool mobile application. Who isn’t going to benefit from mobile communications more than anglers?
Looking to learn where to go, what to catch and how to catch it? Besides cool sites like The Local Fisherman, how are you going to find it when you’re actually out and about?
California just came up with the solution.
The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has released a mobile Fishing Guide web application that provides access to fishing locations, latest fish planting sites and fishing license sales locations. The web app, which is optimized for iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones, can be accessed by navigating to www.dfg.ca.gov/mobile.
The new web app has three components:
1. Fishing Guide: The core Fishing Guide component provides a listing and maps of more than 1,500 fishing locations across the state. This includes locations that are accessible by car as well as back-country sites.
2. California Fish Stocking Schedule: Recently planted locations often provide excellent fishing opportunities. Anglers can now use their mobile phones to quickly find the latest fish planting sites in their area.
3. Fishing Licenses: Use your mobile phone to find one of the more than 1,600 locations around the state that sell fishing licenses.
DFG’s mobile Fishing Guide app was developed in collaboration with the Office of the State Chief Information Officer, in conjunction with the newly designed CA.gov portal. The Fishing Guide app can also be found by navigating to www.m.ca.gov and clicking on Recreation and Leisure.
Mobile technologies allow us to have more information faster, be more efficient, and allow us to get what we need through our mobile application. California has moved in the right direction with its new mobile app. Kudos to them.
