Annual Seminar Saturday 21st Feb 2004. URGENT UPDATE
You will be pleased to learn that progress with this popular event is going well with over 120 people now having confirmed their attendance on the day. We have however received some useful feedback from previous attendees and others that the day is somewhat too oriented towards the ‘Greatest Angler’ topic with too little emphasis on fisheries management and angling management topics.
So in response to this feedback the organising committee have decided to adjust the itinerary for the day. The overall length of and number of speakers in the ‘Greatest Angler Session’ have been reduced from 12 to 10 (you can still vote for Grace Ballantyne and Andy Little if you wish) and we are pleased to announce we’ve added:
HOW YOUR ROD LICENCE MONEY CAN HELP PAY FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO YOUR FISHERY by Alan Butterworth, Environment Agency Thames Region.
In this session Alan will outline how clubs, fisheries and riparian owners using a partnership approach may obtain project monies for fishery and angling enhancement and development schemes. How much of your (the rod licence tax payers) money is available for reinvestment and how to best put a bid together to ensure a good chance of success? What other funding sources are available to angling clubs, fishery and riparian owners? What about Sports Lottery Grants, conservation awards, contributions from local authorities etc?
What sort of projects will the Agency help fund? Cormorant refuges? Restocking?
River habitat restoration? Junior Coaching Initiatives? Lake Desilting?
The best way to find the answers to these questions and more is to book your ticket now. There will be a question & answer session following this presentation.
Additional Information. Cormorants. The Black Plague! An Update.
The use of underwater reefs to protect fish stocks from Cormorant predation.
CEFAS & EA will present a poster paper with details of results recently obtained from experimental work undertaken on ponds at Fobney, Reading.
Please send me …… ticket(s) for the TFCC Seminar at £ 10 per ticket to the Axum House address below. I enclose a cheque for £ ……..(payable to Thames Fisheries Consultative Council) and an SAE.
Name………………………………..
Organisation…………………………….
Address……………………………..
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Tel no (day)………………(evening)…………….
My club/fishery would like a free appointment with NAFAC Membership Services Officer Fred French at the Seminar to discuss insurance issues
Yes please/No thank you (delete as appropriate)
Chairman: M V Mann, 86 Early Road, Witney, Oxon. OX8 6EU Tel.01993 704711
Secretary: J W Ellis, Axum House, 1 Stratton Mews, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 3PY. Tel. 01525 381280
Treasurer: D M Oakes, The Lock cottage, Red Lion Lane, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9TF. Tel. 01442 219415
Thames Fisheries Consultative Council Seminar 2004 Itinerary. (AmendedItinerary)
Saturday 21st February 2004 at the Wheatley Campus of Oxford Brookes University.
Ticket Price £ 10 including lunch & coffee. Tel 01525 381280 for bookings.
9.15 am onwards Delegates Arrive. Tea & Coffee available.
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and Opening Remarks Martin Salter MP.
Session 1. Chairman Martin Salter MP.
10.05 to 10.30 The decline of flylife in South Western Rivers. An examination of possible causes. Peter Hayes Wiltshire Fisheries Association.
10.30 to 10.50 The impact of Boat Traffic movement on the ecology of canal ecosystems. Jonathon Briggs. British Waterways .
10.50 to 11.20 Questions and Discussion.
11.20 to 11.30 Break.
11.30 to 12.30 How your rod licence money can help pay for improvements to Your Fishery. Alan Butterworth.
12.30 to 1.00 p m Who is Britains Greatest Ever Freshwater Angler?
Part 1 Chairman John Ellis Secretary Thames Fisheries Consultative Council.
Contender for Great Angler – Presenter
1. Jim Bazley – John Essex Angling Historian
2. Billy Lane – Andrew Ellis Scotch Whisky Expert
3. Chris Yates – John Ward Allen Medlar Press
1.00 to 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.30. Who is Britain’s Greatest Ever Freshwater Angler Part 2
4. Izaac Walton – Mark Wilton Izaac Walton Stafford AA
5. Ivan Marks – Ian McNeil Fisheries Consultant
6 Hugh Falkus – Malcolm Greenhalgh Author & Biologist
7. Bob Nudd – Tom Legge Angling Consultant
8. Dick Walker – Martin James Angling Journalist/Broadcaster
9 J W Martin – Matt Carter Environment Agency
10. Bernard Venables – Chris Poupard Thames RFERAC Chairman
3.30 to 3.45pm. Break
3.45 – 4.30. The Disability Discrimination Act. How will it effect your Club or Fishery? Lorraine Kershaw (Rochdale Council) and Terry Moseley. British Disabled Angling Association. Presentation followed by question and answer session.
4.30- 4.45. Raffle and Announcement of Results of Greatest Freshwater Angler Vote.
4.45 onwards depart.
TFCC claim no legal responsibility for the accuracy of any information contained in this correspondence and in particular do not guarantee the attendance of all the speakers advertised in this correspondence. In the event of advertised speakers not being able to attend we will endeavour to find substitute speakers where possible.
