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Friday 13th
February 2015
All the latest
fishing news from the Angling Trust and Fish Legal
Fish Legal is
ramping up its legal work to help protect the rare Arctic Char, we need you
to complete our short survey
about our membership offering and there's news about a new fundraising raffle
to raise funds for fish and fishing. Don't miss another great book
competition at the end of this email.
You can read more sea
angling news in our recent Sea-Update HERE.
Angling Trust and Fish Legal Top News
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Fish Legal
Warns Welsh Regulator of Further Court Action to Save Rare and Protected
Fish
Fish Legal
has sent Natural Resources Wales (NRW) a ‘letter before action’ for failing
to protect the rare Arctic char in Llyn Padarn, North Wales.
> Read more
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The Angling
Trust is constantly working to improve the service we offer. We are
currently reviewing our membership model and we would like to invite you to
provide your input via a short online survey
that should take an absolute maximum of 10 minutes to complete. We would
really welcome your views about your membership of the Angling Trust &
Fish Legal. Please complete the survey by the end of February so that we
can include your views in our paper to the Angling Trust board meeting in
early March.
> Take Part in the Survey
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Fancy a Flutter
For a Day’s Shooting?
We have had a
very generous donation of a really fabulous day's pheasant and partridge
shooting to enjoy next winter in Wiltshire and we are selling just 300 tickets at £100 each
to win the whole package for 8/9 people including a fine lunch. Date
to be arranged with the donor. If we sell all the tickets, we will
raise £30,000 to support our work fighting for fish and fishing. Please
spread the word to everyone you know who might be interested. Tickets must
be sold by 31 March, so make sure you don't miss out by putting it off!
> Enter the Raffle Here
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NEW: Top 50
Coarse Fish Lists
The British
Record (Rod-Caught) Fish Committee has published the Top 50 Coarse Fish
Lists on their page on our website. This fascinating record of the top
weights makes interesting reading for anybody interested in the biggest
fish that swim in our waters.
> View the lists at www.anglingtrust.net/records
The record
game and sea lists can be found on the same page.
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Fishery
Improvement Fund:
Deadline For Applications Tuesday 17th February 2015
Has Your Club or Fishery Applied Yet?
In the last
edition of this e-news we let you know that the Angling Trust has launched
a £65,000 ‘Fishery Improvement Fund’ which will make awards of up to £5,000
to to eligible organisations.
Applications
must be posted or emailed to reach the Angling Trust by Tuesday 17th
February 2015.
> Full details on how to
apply
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Mike Heylin
Receives OBE at Buckingham Palace
Mike Heylin
OBE was at Buckingham Palace recently to collect his award from HRH The
Prince of Wales. He was made OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List last
year. Accompanied by his wife, Eileen, son Alex and daughter Jenny, they
enjoyed a day out in the cold and wet of a wintery London.
> Read more
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Higher Minimum
Legal Size Must Apply To All To Save Bass
An EU
proposal to raise the minimum legal size for bass must apply to all those
fishing for them – that’s the message the Angling Trust has sent to top
decision makers at the EU and member of an EU working party who will be
discussing further emergency measures for bass in Brussels tomorrow
following the ban on pelagic trawling that was introduced earlier this
month.
> Read more
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Hot Topics on
the Angling Trust Website
We've got a
new section on our website - "Hot Topics" has contributions from
prominent voices within angling about the rod licence and river close
season as well as the bass campaign that we have been working on in recent
months.
> Read more
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Fish Legal News
You can read more Fish Legal news HERE
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Welsh Anglers
Seek Compensation for Massive Fish Kill
Agricultural
slurry pollution caused catastrophic fish mortality on the Olway Brook in
August 2013, due to farmer negligence when operating machinery at a slurry
pit. Over 73,000 fish of all species were killed on this tributary of the
river Usk, itself a special area of conservation. Fish Legal has advised
its members in relation to the incident and presented the farmer with a
claim for financial compensation as well as for further habitat work to
mitigate damage to the ecology of the Brook.
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Fish Legal
Claims Compensation for Member Club Following Huge Fire and Explosions
Fish Legal
has sent a claim to Multiroof Building Products Ltd for its member club the
Todmorden Angling Society, claiming compensation for the pollution of one
of its most popular coarse fisheries. Grove Lodge - a fishery at
Littleborough in Lancashire - lies downstream of Multiroof’s former
factory. According to the Health & Safety Executive around 95,000
tonnes of combustible fluids were on site when a fire broke out in May
2012. The fire destroyed the factory, caused solvent to enter Grove Lodge
(killing many of the fish), in turn creating a strong smell of solvent
making fishing impossible. Fish Legal’s letter claims damages for the fish
kill, loss of amenity, loss of membership and day tickets income, as well
as legal costs.
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Competition News
Read all the latest Angling Trust Competition news HERE
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Carp Team
England New Manager Appointed
Internationally
renowned and respected carp angler Rob Hughes has been appointed Manager of
Angling Trusts Carp Team England in an agreement that will secure the
future of English representation in the international arena.
> Read more
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England Feeder
Team Announced
Preston
Innovations England World Feeder team has been selected for the FIPSed 5th
World Feeder Championships in 2015.
> Read more
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General News and Classifieds
Events and
articles of interest from the Angling Trust and the world of fishing.
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Still Time To
Bid in the
Team England Fly Fishing Fundraising Auction
TEFF annual
Auction to raise money for the AT Team England Fly Fishers is in full-swing
with the money raised going towards the costs of our teams for 2015. Prizes
include the chance to bid for a day's guided fishing with top England
International anglers!
> Read more
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Register Your
Reservoir With SEPA From 1 April 2015 To Avoid Charges
The
regulatory landscape for reservoir safety in Scotland is changing. Find out
how the changes will affect you.
> Read more
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New Angler Log
Book App Still Seeks Angler Input
Cefas are
working to engage anglers as citizen scientists to map the distribution and
health of wild freshwater and marine fish. To achieve this we are
developing a free electronic logbook (smartphone app) as a reporting
platform, which we hope anglers will also find valuable for recording their
fishing experiences.
Click here to take the
survey>
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Dates For Your Diary
Meet the Angling Trust and Fish Legal at the following shows...
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Carpin' On 2015
- 7th and 8th March
The UK’s #1
carp fishing exhibition which covers all aspects of carp-angling and brings
all the biggest brands under one roof! Over 80 exhibitors, outdoor demos
and displays and live forums, slide shows and tell-all interviews from
leading anglers including legendary carp anglers Terry Hearn, Ali Hamidi
and the Korda Team, Rob Hughes and many more...
More info at www.carpinon.co.uk
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The Big One -
21st and 22nd March
UK's Largest
Fishing Show and Tackle Sale. Join us at FIVE Farnborough, GU14 6AZ on
21st and 22nd March 2015 for a host of Angling Celebrities and tackle
bargains.
More info at www.fishfacepromotions.co.uk
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Membership: Offers and Competitions
You can check out the full list of great membership benefits and offers HERE.
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Win
"Running With The Tide" by Simon Smith
We will draw
a winner on 27th February from anybody who USES THIS LINK
to forward this email on to a friend. Please encourage them to join the
Angling Trust - more members means we can do more to fight for fish and
fishing...
"Exhilarating and
refreshing in its originality, this is a book about fishing, and being a
fisherman, and how that changes everything."
Thanks to our
supporters Medlar Press, publishers of fine fishing books and Waterlog
magazine for supplying this prize. Check out their website at www.medlarpress.com
for more angling titles.
> Read more about the book
at Medlar Press
NB: You
must use the link above to be counted in book draw entries
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Book
Competition Winners
The winner of
the competition to win G.E.M. Skues' "Itchen Memories" & His
Biography was Mr P Blythin.
The wnner in
our book prize draw at the British Fly Fair International last weekend was
Mr P Sweatman.
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