PROFESSOR BARRIE RICKARDS


Professor Barrie Rickards is a reader in Palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Emmanuel College and a curator of the Sedgwick Museum of Geology.

He is President of the Specialist Anglers’ Alliance and the Lure Angling Society.

Barrie has been a keen angler all his life and wrote the classic book ‘Fishing For Big Pike’ with co-author Ray Webb. He takes a keen and active interest in angling politics.

European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission

In an earlier article I said I’d tell you about the European Inland Fisheries Advisory Commission 22nd Session. Sounds impressive! It was held at the Low Wood Hotel, Ambleside, not a million miles from the Windermere pike fishery (and trout and char fishery of course). I didn’t attend this conference but for some reason or other a pr