The National Governing Body for recreational fishing in the UK – the Angling Trust – is campaigning for angling to become one of the first permitted outdoor activities when ministers review the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on May 7th. Fishing is one of Britain’s most popular pastimes and has long been known to be beneficial to […]
Plan for getting back to fishing from the UK’s angling governing body….
RiverFest 2020 tickets on sale March 13th
The Angling Trust is delighted to announce that RiverFest 2020 ticket sales will open in alignment with the end of the river season on, Monday 16th March at 10.30am for all Angling Trust members. A revamped competition for 2020 will see a brand-new final on the mighty River Trent at Burton Joyce, which we’re sure […]
Promoting Fishing on Old Father Thames
Two long established angling clubs in the Oxford and Reading areas have decided to enter into a new water sharing agreement with aim of encouraging more anglers to experience some of the great fishing that the River Thames has to offer. Reading & District Angling Association (RDAA) have offered Oxford based Littlemore Angling Society (LAS) […]
MPs respond to Chalkstream Crisis Campaign
Following two months of intense campaigning by the Angling Trust and other fisheries and wildlife groups on the crisis facing drought-hit rivers and chalkstreams in the South and East of England the matter was finally debated in Parliament this week. Charles Walker MP, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Angling, secured strong cross […]
Fish Legal wins High Court challenge over Kendal sewage outfall
The High Court has ruled that a decision by Cumbria County Council to allow United Utilities to continue using a temporary sewage outfall at Kendal Wastewater Treatment Works for another 12 months was unlawful. In a judgement handed down last Friday, the council was found not to have properly considered the environmental impact of the […]
Chalk Streams in Crisis
Following three consecutive dry years across much of Britain, river levels and groundwater supplies are now in such a depleted state in the water-stressed South East that wildlife organisations and river groups have published a call for the Government and Water Companies to introduce hosepipe bans and other water restrictions immediately to avert fish kills […]
£100,000 of fishing licence money to be used to improve fisheries
Another £100,000 of fishing licence income is being made available to angling clubs and fisheries based in England through the next round of funding from the Angling Improvement Fund. The money will be focused on funding measures to protect fish stocks from predation. The Angling Trust, which administers the fund in partnership with the Environment […]
Angling Trust to recruit more than 100 volunteer bailiffs…
The Angling Trust has resumed recruitment of Phase 1 Volunteer Bailiffs to help in tackling illegal fishing and fish poaching. Successful applicants will be trained by policing and enforcement professionals to keep watch on fisheries and report incidents and suspicious activity to a high evidential standard to the Environment Agency and Police. Twenty volunteers will […]
Anglian Water admits to 2013 fish kill on River Cam
Anglian Water has admitted it killed fish on the River Cam after years of denying that it was responsible following failures at its sewage treatment works (STW) at Milton in Cambridge. In July 2013, after a fault at its STW, high levels of ammonia were discharged into the River Cam – a premier coarse fishery […]
Angling Trust urges RSPCA to stop blaming anglers for plastic problems
The Angling Trust has urged the RSPCA not to lay the blame at anglers’ feet following the publication this morning of an article in The Guardian suggesting that the majority of litter related wildlife incidents are caused by discarded fishing tackle. Instead the Angling Trust invites the RSPCA to join with it in highlighting the […]
Angling on BBC Countryfile…..
Angling reached another milestone this summer when over 1,000 people had a go at fishing during what has been billed as “this summer’s best day out”, BBC Countryfile Live 2018. Completely free fishing sessions for newcomers organised by the UK’s largest angling charity Get Hooked on Fishing were one of the show’s main draws. Families […]
Partnership delivers new spawning habitat for River Loddon at Sandford Mill
Partners from Thames Water, Twyford and District Fishing Club, Angling Trust, Environment Agency and Wokingham Council Countryside Service met last week to celebrate the completion of the first phase of a £65,000 programme of enhancements to the River Loddon and the St Patrick’s Stream near Reading. The River Loddon in Berkshire has traditionally suffered from […]
Tackle firm Guru sponsors Warrington’s Partridge Lakes Fishery
Tackle brand Guru has stepped in to sponsor northern England venue Partridge Lakes Fishery. Partridge Lakes, situated in Culcheth, Warrington, is one of the biggest angling complexes in the UK, attracting match, pleasure and carp anglers from countrywide. With a total of 15 lakes on site, Partridge hosts an array of top-end big money qualifiers, […]
Fisheries Enforcement Support Service and UK National Wildlife Crime Unit sign Information Sharing Agreement
Pic: Helen Bulmer of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and Fisheries Enforcement Support Service Intelligence Manager Gary Thomas, with the newly signed Intelligence Sharing Agreement The Angling Trust has signed an important Information Sharing Agreement with the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, setting out the framework and protocols for the sharing of information and […]
Funding secured for two more years to help to tackle fishery predation
Pic: Innovative techniques such as mannequins have been used to deter fish-eating birds including cormorants Funding for two vital Angling Trust roles to help tackle predation by cormorants and goosanders has been extended for a further two years. The Environment Agency has been given approval to use rod licence income to safeguard the Fisheries […]
