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A unique coalition of 14 leading environmental organisations * including the Angling Trust has issued a joint call to the Coalition Government to take action on wasted water, pollution and wetland wildlife. The new Blueprint for Water is published today and sets out how the Government could ensure the health and sustainability of England’s water environment by 2015. While some positive moves have been made, there is much more to be done. The Government needs to take its responsibilities to…
The Angling Trust has learned that the Environment Agency has granted licences to the Small Hydro Company, working with British Waterways, for two hydropower plants on the river Trent at Sawley and Gunthorpe which allow up to 100 fish – including eels – to be killed at each of two plants in any 24 hour period. While this doesn’t suggest that the Environment Agency (EA) is directly licensing the killing of fish, it appears to allow the developers to keep…
Shooting and angling have a vital role to play in providing a joined-up approach to the rural environment and economy, Shadow Environment Minister Huw Irranca-Davies told delegates at the Labour party conference in Manchester on Monday night.. Mr Irranca-Davies was speaking at The Rural Reception organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Angling Trust. He said this partnership approach was driven by organisations such as BASC and the Angling Trust, adding that Labour needed to…
The public benefits of conservation and economic generation provided by shooting and angling will become increasingly important as spending cuts come into effect, delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool were told last night. Speaking at the Rural Reception hosted by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Angling Trust, the representative body for all angling, Roger Williams MP said: “There are tough times ahead. Some public funds may no longer…
The Angling Trust’s legal arm – Fish Legal – has welcomed the recent order from the Information Commissioner for the Environment Agency (EA) to release pollution records and monitoring data for the River Test. The EA had repeatedly refused to provide the information on the grounds that supplying it would be ‘manifestly unreasonable’. Fish Legal – whose lawyers provide free legal support to more than 900 member clubs, riparian owners and syndicates throughout the UK – regularly asks the EA…
Fish Legal solicitors have stepped in and successfully brokered a deal between British Waterways and the Moss Side Social Angling Society to save specimen fish in the Toddbrook Reservoir and to restock on a like-for-like basis all medium-sized fish removed from the waters as the reservoir is drained to carry out essential maintenance work. The reservoir, which nestles amongst picturesque hills above Whaley Bridge in the Peak District, offers coarse fishing to its small membership, along with day tickets sales…
At its first meeting since the election with the new Environment & Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon MP this week, the Angling Trust set out its strategic agenda for the future of marine and freshwater fisheries and fishing. Marine The Trust’s representatives emphasised the correlation between the health of fish stocks and economic benefits from tourism. As a result, the Minister offered to involve recreational sea anglers, through the Angling Trust, in the development of a co-ordinated policy on sea angling…
The Salmon and Trout Association: "Game anglers influencing national decision makers over the management and protection of salmon, trout and sea trout, the conservation of water and the diverse environments upon which all aquatic life depends." S&TA presents aquaculture evidence to Petitions Committee On September 7th, an S&TA team gave evidence to the Scottish Government’s petitions Committee, supporting the information we wrote to accompany our Aquaculture Petition, with its 17,000 signatures. We asked the Committee three specific questions; why is…
Press release October 2010: Holewood Farm is situated in Crowborough East Sussex which has always been a beef and cattle farm but with the difficulties that farming has endured in recent years we have had look to other methods of business and for the last 18 months we have researched and planned to turn one of our fields into a lake and private syndicate. With the help of our son (Ashley) who is a very keen and knowledgeable carp and…
Barnsley and District AAS cruised to victory in the inaugural Preston Innovations “World Club Classic” fished on Warwickshire’s river Avon on 24th and 25th September. Ten of the country’s top teams lined up for a 2 day event to find out who would represent England in next year’s FIPSed World Club Championships in Serbia. The competing teams had all qualified for this event after finishing in the top ten of the Angling Trust’s first Division National Championships earlier in the…
With only 5 per cent of rivers in England and Wales described as being in a pristine condition a new survey has been launched by a coalition of conservationists to celebrate and bring attention to some of Britain's best loved and long forgotten rivers. The Our Rivers Campaign, which includes the Angling Trust, the RSPB, the Salmon and Trout Association and WWF-UK, is calling on people to take part in the first ever Our Rivers Awards by going online and…
Having recently returned from fishing in the World Nations Championship in Merida, Spain, as part of gold-medal-winning Drennan Team England, Will Raison has pledged his support for the Angling Trust by becoming a life member of the recently-formed governing and representative body for coarse, game and sea angling. Will is a highly popular and successful match angler who has won gold and silver in the World Championships in previous years. He has produced a series of DVDs and is a…
One of the most prestigious angling matches of the calendar year took place on Saturday 21st August 2010 with 670 anglers (67 teams of 10 anglers) fishing the Angling Trust Division One National Championship. The Championship was held on a slightly rain freshened River Trent either side of Newark on the tidal and non-tidal reaches. It was a massive operation between the many clubs involved to put this event on, and everyone who was involved need praising for all their…
The Angling Trust is delighted to announce that it has secured the biggest cash injection into International Coarse angling in a generation, in the form of a very generous donation of £40,000 to support some of the International Coarse Angling teams. The teams will be U14s, Ladies, Veterans and Anglers with Disabilities. Durham based HV Power Electrical Systems have very generously offered to fund these teams after an appeal by the Angling Times in conjunction with Angling Trust. Stuart Porter,…
Fish Legal’s lawyers have written to the Director General for the Environment in Brussels to request that the European Commission considers infraction proceedings against the UK government in Northern Ireland for breaches of environmental legislation under plans to reopen the River Lagan for canal navigation which would have a devastating effect on recovering salmon and trout populations. The Lagan Canal Restoration Trust – set up to oversee the ‘restoration’ of the Lagan corridor – counts among its partners both the…
Help us to raise thousands in support of The Prince’s Trust! - Sponsor information leaflet Who are we? We are a team of ten colleagues working for Northumbrian Water and Essex and Suffolk Water Ltd in the North East and South East regions of England. What is our aim? Together, we share a common goal… To raise significant funds in support of The Prince’s Trust: a youth charity which gives disadvantaged young people the skills and confidence to find a…
