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Angling Trust
The formation of the Angling Trust as the single unified governing body for angling in England offers great opportunities to develop the sport, and the creation of the "Angling in Schools" website represent a significant step in our aim to engage with many more young people in order to teach them not just about the sport of angling but also to give them an understanding and appreciation of the wider environment.
Working through the Angling Development Board, which is the development arm of the Angling Trust, we will support and encourage the development of a range of learning opportunities from which schools, youth groups and other social service areas, can choose in order to help them to meet their objectives whilst, at the same time, enhancing the opportunities and expectations of their charges.
Our Mission
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. We will develop programmes with clubs to increase participation, particularly amongst groups who have yet to discover the joys of going fishing. We 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.
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
More details can be found on the Angling Trust website.