Soil is currently being destroyed ten times faster than it’s being created. This is not only putting the farming sector at risk and costing England & Wales £1.2 billion a year, but is affecting the health of our rivers. A new report by WWF, The Rivers Trust and The Angling Trusts shows that spending approximately £10 million […]
Invasive species week – Minister sees first hand the damage that floating pennywort is having. Biosecurity Minister Lord Gardiner met the Angling Trust and Environment Agency to see at first hand the damaging effect floating pennywort, an invasive non-native aquatic plant, is having on our waterways. Lord Gardiner visited Little Britain Lake in Hillingdon, west […]
Fish Legal and the Angling Trust have written to the government to warn that it could face legal action if it fails to protect sensitive marine sites off the South Coast of England. Thousands of English wrasse are being caught in Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) – protected under EU law – and transported to […]
Thanks to David Curtis for keeping me posted on these developments SAVE OUR SEA BASS November 2017 Update Fishing for Sea Bass Is Not A Crime – Don’t Let The EU Make It One! The EU wants to make it illegal for the public to catch or keep a single sea bass in 2018. But […]
Follow the Wrasse fishery news stream using the ‘wrasse’ search Tag Angling Trust – Wrasse Campaign The Angling Trust has launched a national campaign calling for an immediate closure of the live capture wrasse fishery supplying fish to the Scottish salmon farming industry and is urging all anglers and conservationists to get involved. Live wrasse […]
An article and a video from the Angling Trust highlight the scale of the problem. Whilst the Environment Agency, to their credit, are still highlighting individual prosecutions the sheer scale of the problem has been highlighted by this recent work. The Grenfell effect is probably at work, a combination of a push for quick profit, […]
A cross party group of MPs, including the current Water Minister Therese Coffey, Sports Minister Tracey Crouch and former Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon, attended a chalk stream discovery day on the River Itchen last week to learn about problems facing all rivers and in particular the English chalk streams. These unique habitats are under […]
Angling trust reveal how EA Flood Defence contracts are destroying river habitats that other parts of the EA are trying to support wasting resources Angling Trust: After a lengthy investigation, the Angling Trust has uncovered evidence of the destruction of habitat for fish and other wildlife by Environment Agency contractors carrying out flood defence works […]