With opening day ever closer the upper river is looking pretty good and the colour is dropping out as far downstream as Hay on Wye. Hoever there is still rain tomorrow, possibly heavy so its a liitle too early to call. Will certainly be plenty of water still on and obviously high water beats are the best bet.
Once again levels have dropped away very quickly considering water lying all over the saturated fields though the upper catchment though Llangurig continues to miss much of the heaviest rain.
the Latest News Stories This Month from the Angling Trust and Fish Legal
Welcome
to the latest news from the Angling Trust and Fish Legal.
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Angling
Trust tells MPs that dredging the Thames would make flooding worse
Dredging
isn’t a ‘silver bullet’ to solve the winter flooding crisis. It can actually
make downstream flooding worse, is usually bad news for the environment and
would have delivered a staggering extra 550 million gallons of floodwater a day
into the flood hit communities of the Lower Thames.
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Connect
Right and Stop Water Pollution
Plumbing
and drainage misconnections pollute rivers and beaches throughout the UK. Check
your property is connected right. If wastewater or sewage is connected to a
surface water drain you may be polluting your local river or beach.
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Building
Bridges With Eastern European Sea Anglers
The
Angling Trust’s Building Bridges team have helped sea anglers in Essex by
translating rules for fishing on Southend-on-Sea’s pier into both Polish and
Lithuanian.
Local
anglers from the Southend Pier Angling Forum, a group of volunteers from a local
fishing club, hope that this will help to provide education on sea angling rules
and customs to the growing number of Eastern Europeans, and other nationalities,
who enjoy sea fishing from the pier.
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Angling
Trust Writes to PM on Behalf of Flood-Hit Angling Businesses
The
Angling Trust has written to Prime Minister David Cameron to seek assurances
that the grants announced last week for flood-hit businesses will also be made
available to angling clubs, fisheries and tackle shops
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Sign
up to less poaching
Fnd
out about how the free signs and translation services offered by our Building
Bridges Team can help your club protect its waters from the unwanted attentions
of poachers in the latest blog from the Angling Trust's Freshwater Team.
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Meetings
Arranged For Sea Angling 2012 Results To Be Presented To Anglers
The
Angling Trust will be holding meetings in Cornwall, Devon and Hampshire over the
course of March in order for sea anglers to hear about the results of the Sea
Angling 2012 project from the team who carried it out.
>Find
the dates and venues nearest to you in our latest Sea Angling e-news update HERE. |
Fish Legal News
Read all the
latest Fish Legal news HERE
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EA’s
Head of Fisheries and Biodiversity meets Fish Legal’s to discuss failings in
pollution responses
A
Freedom of Information request made by Fish Legal last year had exposed serious
failings within the Agency teams responding to fish kills, for example, due to
inconsistently involving fisheries staff. This sparked an
Agency-wide review of their performance in this area in 2013.
The
findings of the audit came as no surprise to Fish Legal's lawyers, who will be
pushing for fisheries staff to be better resourced and take a more prominent
role in the Agency's freshwater pollution investigation and enforcement
response.
Full
details of the outcome of the audit will be publicised
shortly.
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Fish
Legal has made a claim on behalf of the West Lindsey Angling Club against Severn
Trent Water for a major fish kill in the Gainsborough Reservoir
The
water company were prosecuted by the Environment Agency for the incident in
February 2012 and assured the Court that they would pay to restock the reservoir
at the same level as before the incident. Two years on and the company have yet
to pay anything towards restocking. This leaves members of the club facing
another season without use of their only fishing venue. Fish Legal awaits
Severn Trent's response to the claim.
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'Tidal
Lagoon' project in Swansea Bay scrutinised by angling interests
Following
the rejection of the most recent Severn barrage (hydropower) scheme, which would
have risked widespread ecological harm not least to the improving salmon runs in
the Wye and Usk, an application has now been submitted for the world's first
'tidal lagoon' hydropower scheme, also in the Bristol Channel.
Fish
Legal, the Angling Trust and the local angling clubs led by Pontardawe &
Swansea Angling Society commissioned an independent report from consultants APEM
Ltd which in contrast advises careful monitoring and mitigation to minimise
impacts, with compensation for any unavoidable losses.
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Competition News...
Read all
the latest competition news HERE
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Angling
Trust RiverFest 2014 qualifiers Announced
The
UK’s biggest river competition just got bigger!
The Angling Trust is
delighted to announce the 20 qualifying venues for this year’s RiverFest
competition.
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England's
fishing teams need you!
Match
fishing legend Dick Clegg is spearheading a campaign to raise £30,000 to send
the England squads to this year’s world championships.
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Marine
World & Home Championship Teams for 2014 Announced
The
National Teams & Competitions Group of the Angling Trust are delighted to
announce the Angling Trust Team England sea angling squads for 2014. Please
click on the link below for full details of the teams and their members.
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competition enquiries please contact Sandra Drew, Angling Trust Competitions
& Events Manager at sandra.drew@anglingtrust.net or
by telephone on 0115 9061 301 / 307 |
Dates For Your Diary...
Please stop by our booth
for a chat and tell us about your
fishing.
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Chris
Yates Booksigning
On
May 17th at River Reads
Bookshop in Torrington, Devon, Chris Yates will be signing copies of his
latest book “The Lost Diary” about a year on Redmire Pool. Chris will be happy
to sign that and other books at a cost of £2 per signature with £1 going to the
Angling Trust and £1 going to Angling Heritage, the charitable trust preserving
angling history - www.anglingheritage.org |
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Meet
Us At The Midlands Carp and Coarse Spectacular
It's
the 3rd year of this monster show with more manufacturers, more celebrities and
more great show only offers
FREE ENTRY if you’re a member of one of the
following Angling Trust member clubs who are all exhibiting at the show:
Birmingham Anglers Association, Leamington Spa Angling Club, Lymm Angling
Club,
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Members
Get Half Price Entry to Carpin’ On 2014
The
esteemed Carpin’ On show, now in its 13th year, is proud to announce that TV’s
Jeremy Wade will be joining the event on Saturday 15th March. Tickets are £10 on
the door but if you book a full price ticket in advance you get £10 worth of
Seafood Take-Away bait from Solar Tackle on arrival at the show; however, show
organisers CCL have agreed to offer Angling Trust members half price entrance if
you pay on the door. Just take the voucher along and present it on arrival along
with your Angling Trust Membership Card for your half-price entry. For more
information about the event www.carpinon.co.uk |
Please Tell
A Friend About Our New £2.50 Monthly Payment
Option
Angling Trust Membership For Just £2.50 a Month! See
details below...
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DD.) This new option will make it easier for those who prefer to pay in
installments rather than in a single £25 lump sum. Please
forward this email to someone you know who is not a member and encourage
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Win
a Bank BUG Enterprise Tackle Artificial Bait Case!
Bank
BUG has teamed up with the Angling Trust to offer our members an exclusive
opportunity to win one of three limited edition Enterprise Tackle Artificial
Bait Cases worth £29.00.
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for all game, coarse and sea angling in England. We fight for fish and fishing
by working to improve and protect fish stocks, promoting the benefits of angling
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behalf of its member clubs, fisheries and riparian owners throughout the UK and
acts as the legal arm of the Angling Trust in England. www.fishlegal.net
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