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The Angling Trust has today written to Prime Minister David Cameron and Environment and Fisheries Minister George Eustice to seek assurances that the grants announced last week for flood-hit businesses will also be made available to angling clubs, fisheries and tackle shops which have lost significant revenue as a result of persistent high water levels. The Angling Trust has had reports from its members that several fishing tackle shops, angling clubs and commercial fisheries in areas affected by the persistent…
The Angling Trust is following up on the publication of a major report on dredging by the Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management (note 1) this week by calling on the government to focus on land management, rather than dredging rivers and building yet more flood defences. Research clearly shows that changes in land use reduce run-off and increase infiltration, which reduces the height of flood peaks, and reduces the amount of sediment washing into rivers. One recent study…
The UK’s biggest river competition just got bigger as The Angling Trust is delighted to announce the 20 qualifying venues for this year’s RiverFest competition. The qualifiers will begin earlier than 2013 with the first match taking place on the River Calder, Mirfield on Sunday 22nd June. The qualifiers will then continue on a weekly basis through to the last qualifier for 2014 on Saturday 1st November on the River Nene, March. Three anglers from each qualifier will progress to…
2013 world championship winning squad back together and targetting back-to-back wins. International Events Manager, Dick Clegg in collaboration with the team manager Dave Brooks and England coach Joe Roberts have selected a team to take part in the FIPSed Ladies World Angling Championships in Portugal later this year. The event will take place on 23rd/24th August in Coruche on the river Soria, a venue that has been used on several previous occasions by the Portuguese Federation. The success of the…
The Angling Trust is looking for talented young coarse anglers who would like to apply for the England under 18s youth assessment trial. The under 18s World Championship is due to be staged at Assen in the Netherlands from 25th-26th July 2014, and a team is required to represent the Angling Trust and team sponsors Sensas. Where and when The Angling Trust Sensas Team England youth assessment trial will take place on Sunday 6th April 2014 at Makins Fishery, Nuneaton,…
Representatives of the Sustainable Access Campaign Cymru (SACC) took their campaign for locally-managed access to land and water to the home of Welsh politics, The National Assembly for Wales on Wednesday 15th January. They hosted an exhibition of angling to stress the importance of the £150 million freshwater recreational angling sector to the Welsh economy, and to highlight the risks that proposals for universal access to land and water being discussed by the Minister for Culture and Sport John Griffiths…
The representative body for all anglers, the Angling Trust, has called on Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond to get a grip on policy concerning Atlantic salmon following a string of decisions in Scotland which all threaten to damage wild fish stocks. The Trust has called on its members to support a petition, which has already gained nearly 20,000 signatures, challenging the recent re-opening of a commercial net fishery targeting spring salmon, one of the most threatened stocks, and calling on…
On 1 April 2013, during Operation CLAMP DOWN, targeting illegal angling during the coarse close season, Voluntary Bailiffs of the Voluntary Bailiff Service's Angling Watch 3 were patrolling the River Thames at King's Meadow, Reading, with Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officer Mick Cox. During this patrol, what appeared to be illegal set lines were found - but upon inspection two handguns and an automatic weapon were found attached and hidden in the river. Thames Valley Police have now investigated the…
The Angling Trust has confirmed that it intends to continue seeking a humane relocation of ‘Keith’ - the seal stuck in the River Severn freshwater system for nearly two years. The Angling Trust successfully applied for a licence from Natural England to rescue the seal during the close season (1 September – 31 December 2013) but this was prevented by extensive flooding. That protective period, however, has now ended. No further licence is required for the control or capture of…
Pike anglers across the midlands have been given an exceptional opportunity to fish an unfished Trout water in Nottingham. Colwick Park’s Trout lake will be opening up to Pike fishing for the first time on January 18th & 19th and February 22nd & 23rd. Due to the lack of pike fishing on the 65 acre lake it is almost impossible to estimate the size of fish currently residing in the lake but with the sheer volume of trout in the…
The Angler is the members magazine of the Angling Trust and Fish Legal and for the first time is now available to read online. The autumn 2013 version has been completely redesigned with much more fishing content than ever before alongside all the important campaign work and news. There are how-to's and feature stories covering coarse, sea and game, interviews with some of our ambassadors, the former fisheries minister and one of our volunteers, plus news of the big campaign…
Scottish Water has paid £5,000 to the United Clyde Angling Protective Association for polluting the Logan Water in South Lanarkshire with silt. Scottish Water resisted repeated requests for compensation, but settled shortly before the case was to be heard at the Lanark Sheriff Court. Lawyers from the angling conservation body Fish Legal, issued the Utility with a claim on behalf of the Association. Scottish Water was carrying out engineering works on the Logan Reservoir in May 2008 when it inadvertently…
The Angling Trust, at its first meeting with the new Fisheries Minister George Eustice on Monday 8th December, urged him to implement conservation measures and to manage more of the UK’s inshore fish stocks for the benefit of recreational anglers, rather than just for commercial exploitation. The Trust particularly stressed the need to protect juvenile and migratory fish in estuaries and other nursery areas from both legal and illegal netting and to stop commercial targeting of fish that are aggregating…
New Blueprint Coalition Chair appointed: S&TA's own Janina Gray Ever since she joined the S&TA in the autumn of 2007 as our (first ever) Research and Policy Manager, Janina Gray – known to one and all as Nina and now our Head of Science HH– has shown a total and passionate commitment to the S&TA’s aims which has helped lift the Association to a whole new level on the national stage. Representing fisheries and aquatic environment interests on committees and…
A Blackburn based organisation asked for your help earlier this week in voting for them to win a head-to-head People's Millions funding competition. We are very pleased to report therefore that The Lodge project won it's funding. This was the information we received from Adrian Hoole, who is an Angling Trust licenced coach and also the chairman of a community association in Blackburn, Lancashire who take young people fishing to give them something to occupy their time and energies. "It…
Many angling clubs are uninsured, or are paying too much for poor insurance cover. Angling Trust membership, which now includes insurance cover as a benefit of membership, is the answer... Many angling clubs and syndicates don’t carry insurance and could face multi-million pound claims if one of their members, or a member of the public, suffered an injury on club waters. Many other angling clubs are paying far too much for cover which is inadequate to protect the club and…
