What FishingHQ does and does not cover
FishingHQ teaches fishing intelligence. It does not tell you where to go and catch a fish, and it does not tell you what the rules are where you are standing. Both of those are deliberate, and both are enforced by the build.
There is no fishing-location product here, and there will not be
FishingHQ does not publish venue recommendations, “best spots” lists, local fishing maps or anything else designed to send a reader to a particular piece of water to catch a particular fish. That is not a gap waiting to be filled; it is a different product, and one that decays the moment it is published.
Geography still appears, because it has to. Species have biological ranges. Habitats have geological explanations. Traditions are regional, and regulatory frameworks are national. The distinction is between explaining where a fish lives and why, and telling somebody where to go and catch one.
This is enforced rather than promised. There is no location route family in the URL contract, so a location page has nowhere to exist, and scripts/audit-scope.ts fails the build on location-intent phrasing anywhere in the catalogue.
There is no regulatory database here either
FishingHQ explains what a licence is, what a close season is for, why size limits exist and how method restrictions work. It does not state current dates, current limits, current prices or current permissions anywhere, for anywhere.
The reason is what can be kept true. A byelaw can change without anybody here noticing, and a reader who takes a stale rule off a page that looked authoritative and is then prosecuted has been badly served. So the record shape has nowhere to put a rule — the fields are what it is, why it exists, how it varies and who to ask — and every page that touches the rules carries a notice telling you to check the current position with the relevant authority and the water itself.
The rules and access section is written on that basis throughout.
What is covered, and what is coming
The catalogue covers target species, disciplines, methods, bait, lures, tackle, knots, rigs, habitats, explainers, history and culture, environmental topics, safety topics and rule concepts. Rod fishing is the primary area and will receive most of the future depth; spearfishing is a first-class section; other fishing methods are covered for understanding rather than instruction.
Coverage is demand-led rather than taxonomic. Starting from taxonomy would produce a catalogue that is comprehensive about gobies and silent about pike.