Angling Trust

The Angling Trust is the new, single organisation to represent all game, coarse and sea anglers and angling in England.

The Trust will lobby the government, campaign on environmental and angling issues and run national and international competitions. They will fight pollution, commercial over-fishing at sea, over-abstraction, poaching, unlawful navigation, local bans and a host of other threats to angling.

As the governing body for all angling, the Angling Trust will seek government funding to develop the sport from grass roots participation through to elite performance.

For more information or to join go to www.anglingtrust.net

The Trust will develop programmes with clubs to increase participation, particularly amongst groups who have yet to discover the joys of going fishing. They will protect the rights of all anglers to do what they love most.

The Angling Trust has been formed from an historic merger of six angling and conservation organisations in January 2009. Other bodies, including the Angling Development Board, will merge with the Angling Trust in 2009.

The Angling Trust has a legal arm, Fish Legal, which will use the law to fight pollution and other damage to fisheries on behalf of member clubs, fisheries and riparian owners.

Please click here for more information: www.fishlegal.net

The Angling Trust will campaign for:
Conservation
Protection of angling
Increased government and EA support for angling and fisheries
Control of nuisance predators
Co-ordinated action on poaching and fish theft

The Angling Trust will deliver:
More quality coaches from diverse backgrounds
Angling education programmes
Increased opportunities to participate in angling
National and international competitions
Support for angling club development

The Angling Trust will fight:
Pollution, over-abstraction and litter
Declining marine and freshwater fish stocks
Commercial overfishing
Habitat degradation
Damaging barrages, weirs and hydropower schemes
Poaching and fish theft
Unlawful navigation
Spread of diseases and parasites
Access restrictions
Anti-angling campaigns