[12 Feb 2009]
Environmental NGOs have called for fish and seafood products to carry labels indicating their level of mercury content, claiming that eating fish can be "hazardous".
[11 Feb 2009]
This week Labour’s Angling and Shooting spokesman Martin Salter MP announced his intention to stand down at the next general election, after more than 25 years of public service in Reading
[02 Feb 2009]
New laws and old increase protection for precious salmon and sea trout stocks
Breakthrough measures to protect precious salmon and sea trout stocks have been announced by Defra and the Welsh Assembly Government
[01 Feb 2009]
The newly formed Angling Trust will represent more people than the membership of all the main political parties combined, the Anglican church and the National Trust.
[26 Jan 2009]
Thames Water wipes out 20 years of painstaking river restoration in one day
A water company whose careless operational practices decimated the aquatic life in an iconic urban river has today, Monday 26 January, been fined £125,000 and ordered to pay £21,335 in clean up and investigation costs.
[16 Jan 2009]
Fishing may be known as the art of drowning worms, but a Report has found recreational angling has landed £22.5m for the Northern Ireland economy.
[15 Jan 2009]
The year two thousand and nine will go down in history as the year that angling started to punch its weight.
[05 Jan 2009]
Unlicensed fishing costs five anglers almost £1500 in fines and costs
Great Yarmouth Magistrates recently imposed fines of £180 on Ian Hayes and £350 on Daniel Simmons for fishing at Aldeby Hall Fishery, Norfolk, without the appropriate Environment Agency rod licence. Both anglers were from Great Yarmouth and had to pay a further £75 each towards the prosecution costs.
[28 Oct 2008]
The Environment Agency has today (Tuesday 28th October) named Mathew Crocker as it's new head of Fisheries..
[01 Jun 2008]
The welfare of coarse fish has received a boost with the announcement that the first group of awards have been made under the Fisheries Accreditation Scheme.