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Fish Legal is celebrating with local protestors on the Isle of Lewis following the Western Isles Council’s (“Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar”) refusal of planning permission for a salmon farm in Broad Bay near Stornoway, one of the last pristine bays on the island to be free of fish farms. The application for planning permission was made by Lighthouse Caledonia, a company which already has 35 fish farms in the Hebrides and the West Coast of Scotland. The company has a…
The Angling Trust and WWF-UK have welcomed Defra’s recent statement committing to a package of new measures to deliver the EU Water Framework Directive. The commitments in the statement provide assurances which satisfactorily address the numerous points raised by these organisations over the past year in their joint application for Judicial Review of the Government and Environment Agency’s first round of River Basin Management Plans. On this basis, WWF-UK and the Angling Trust have agreed to withdraw their legal action…
British Waterways today (30 March 2011) welcomes the start of a three-month government consultation into the future of inland waterways in England and Wales. The consultation sets out the proposals for a new charitable trust to take over the management of the waterways, including how the organisation will be governed and how it will give communities a greater role in looking after their local canals, rivers, reservoirs and docks. British Waterways’ chairman, Tony Hales, comments: “The consultation is an important…
The trustees of The Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are delighted to announce a new collaborative partnership to help the nation’s rivers comply with The Water Framework Directive (WFD). This major piece of legislation will have a huge impact on farming and river management practices in the future. The legislation will specify important quality targets for the majority of local watercourses, streams and rivers to protect and enhance fish stocks, water habitats…
British Waterways is relocating over half a tonne of fish from the side ponds of the famous Caen Hill Flight of Locks on the historic Kennet & Avon Canal, near Devizes, to improve conditions for aquatic wildlife including dragonflies. The relocation follows a successful trial project in 2009, which saw a tonne of fish, including large tench, carp, bream, roach, perch and pike removed from the ponds. The significant numbers of boats that move through the locks at Caen Hill…
At the Angling Summit, held on Monday, Environment and Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon MP promised that the marine and freshwater angling community would be closely involved in decision-making at a local level and nationally through its representative body, the Angling Trust. As an example he indicated that he was prepared to take “bold decisions” with regard to the recently announced review of cormorant licensing and that his officials were meeting with the Angling Trust to draw up the terms of…
Former World Champion Tom Pickering, Manager/Captain of the Preston Innovations England Feeder Team has now announced the team selected for the inaugural Feeder World Championships this year for the World Angling Games in Italy. They are; Tom Pickering (Manager/Captain), Glen Lawrence (Coach), Steve Ringer, Darren Cox, Steve Hemingray, Mick Vials, and Dean Barlow. This year all England teams will be competing in Italy from 28th August – 4th September 2011 which has put some of the bigger names out of…
The Angling Trust warmly welcomes the publication by the Environment Agency of new reports explaining how freshwater anglers’ rod licences are spent regionally and nationally. These reports are the product of a series of meetings, initiated by the Angling Trust in 2009, to encourage greater transparency and accountability by the Environment Agency about how it delivers its management of freshwater fisheries and angling. We congratulate the staff of the Agency responsible for preparation of these clear and helpful reports and…
After 5 years of battling with the NIEA and Central Chemicals, Fish Legal has won over £27,000 in damages for the Iveagh Anglers for the pollution of the River Lagan in Northern Ireland. Fish Legal was forced to issue proceedings at court against Central Chemical Supplies Ltd – a Craigavon-based manufacturer and distributor of chemical products describing itself as “Ireland’s Premier independent Chemical Trader” – following the devastating pollution of the River Lagan in July 2006. The company – whose…
The Drennan Team England Managers, Mark Downes and Mark Addy are pleased to announce their team for this year’s World Nations Championships which will be held along the Ostellato Canal in Italy on the 5th/ 6th September 2011. As expected the Managers have named an unchanged squad to the team that won and brought home the gold medal from Spain last year. The Drennan Team England squad for 2011 are; Mark Downes, and Mark Addy (Joint Managers), Steve Gardener –…
Anglers expressed dismay and anger that a hydropower project at Pershore on the Warwickshire Avon has been given the go-ahead by the Environment Agency, despite evidence that the scheme will destroy vital fish habitat and reduce flows to a trickle. The Angling Trust objected to the scheme on the grounds that the developer had provided absolutely no environmental information with the application, that the flows over the weir at Pershore will be reduced to a trickle for most of the…
We're working closely with the pike angling community to see whether pike are in dcline and if so, what's causing it. That was the message from the Environment Agency, as officials revealed they could not explain what had caused the death of several large pike at Oulton Broad, Suffolk - including a fish well over 30lbs. Fisheries officers recovered the bodies of three pike from the northern area of the Broad earlier this month. Steve Lane, Fisheries Technical Specialist at…
Welcome to the latest update from the Angling Trust. Please read on and click the links to find out more about what we have been doing to protect fishing and fish over the past month. Remember, under 18s can join the Angling Trust for free HERE! NEWS Angling Summit The Angling Trust represented you at the Angling Summit in London on 25th January. We raised a wide range of issues with the Minister and his officials from the marine and…
The Confederation of English Fly Fishers, the England Ladies Fly Fishers Association and the England Youth Fly Fishers Association have all disbanded and have merged into the Angling Trust. This merger marks the latest step in the unification of angling which started with the formation of the Trust in January 2009. The Angling Trust is recognised by Sport England as the national governing body for all competition angling, and its development arm the Angling Development Board receives government funding to…
The Environment Agency is looking to cut back on rod licence checks, the Pike Anglers Club (PAC) can reveal. It comes as figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show a sharp fall in both the number of EA bailiffs and the bankside checks they carry out. Sources say the agency is looking to "outsource" some of the work carried out by bailiffs. It wants fisheries to check whether anglers have an EA licence before selling them day tickets, and…
Investigations by the Angling Trust into reasons behind the declining salmon stocks in Dartmoor’s rivers have revealed that the Environment Agency was aware of the cause as early as 2008, but as yet has failed to take any action to stop the demise of this threatened species. The Atlantic salmon is a designated species for the Dartmoor Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Natural England’s assessment for the Water Framework Directive is that water abstraction is the reason for failure…
