Bleak Day For Fish Farm Hit With Hefty Fine
The UK's leading coarse fish farm ordered to pay over £ 5000 in fines and costs for the attempted illegal introduction of fish into Thatcham lakes
Minister Reassures Anglers On Animal Welfare Bill
Charles Jardine, Director of the Countryside Alliance, gained a public assurance from Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw that angling will be exempt from the forthcoming Animal Welfare Bill
Licence Prosecutions Fall
The number of prosecutions of illegal anglers in December 2004 by the EA for licence offences fell below 300 for the first time since July
Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Tabloid Pike
Professor Barrie Rickards discusses the 'unlikely' stories of monster and savage pike we usually read about in the tabloid press and says in some instances there is some truth in it
Our Own Worst Enemy
Jeff Woodhouse visits a swim that holds some fond memories of his first Thames chub - until he saw the litter lout anglers had been at work
Cormorants, RSPB Back Off Judicial Review
The RSPB has decided not to pursue a judicial review of the new policy regarding the control of cormorants
Did you get out over Christmas?
Send us in your Christmas fishing shots and show us what you were up to
PR and the Future of Angling
Former PR Officer and Regional Media Relations Manager for the Countryside Alliance, David Stocker offers his views on how to give the public a positive view of angling
Environment Agency News
How the Environment Agency will plan, fund and carry out research over the next 10 years, and the highest number of illegal anglers prosecuted this year
What’s Your Poison?
Precocious pundit Professor David Bumblebee, bsD takes a look at the different attitudes to fishing. What are you, a bag-up merchant, a specimen hunter, a fishery man, an aesthete or an all-rounder?
