Grants worth almost £4million to modernise and improve the competitiveness of England‘s fishing industry have been announced. A total of 30 projects ranging from upgrading fishing boats to sustainability and promotional initiatives will receive cash under the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) scheme, funded by Defra and the European Union. Successful bids include (see […]

An unprecedented coalition of environmental and angling groups has produced a ten-point plan of action to secure a healthy water environment for people and wildlife. The grouping, which represents more than six million people, will hand its Blueprint for Water to Environment Minister, Ian Pearson, in the House of Commons today (Tuesday, 28 November) and will […]

NAFAC is pleased to announce that, with immediate effect, Mr Martin Read has been appointed Executive Chairman of the organisation. Martin Read, who is 61 years old and lives in Swinton, South Yorkshire, is recently retired from the steel industry, and is a well known angler and journalist in the North East.  He is the Chairman […]

Carlton Burr from Banks and Burr tackle shop in Rugby says that he’s seeing more and more river anglers coming into his shop.“Of course there’s still a lot of anglers who just want to fish the carp pools like Drayton and Boddington, but it’s been noticeable that more and more of my customers this year […]

Anglers could win Environment Agency funding to fence off lakes to protect the fish in them from otters. Fisheries along the Waveney and Wensum valleys have lost large carp to the animals, particularly when nearby rivers are running high and coloured in the winter. Specimen carp, which are worth thousands of pounds each, are particularly vulnerable to […]

Commonwealth Athletics Champion Dean Macey has become the National Federation of Anglers’ Ambassador for Angling. In recent years young people’s participation in angling has slowly been declining and we believe the involvement of Dean will help us to promote the sport to youngsters, generating a more positive approach to angling in the future.  Dean (pictured above) is […]

Specialist Anglers’ Alliance is delighted to announce it has agreed financial backing from the Environment Agency to help stop otter predation of still-water fish with EA funding for fencing to protect fisheries.  Until now SAA has not been able to get any financial support for fisheries affected.  DEFRA were the only route SAA had to […]

Eight people who went fishing without first buying a licence landed themselves with £1,300 in fines and costs this week, in prosecutions brought by Environment Agency Wales.  Fishing without a licence is an offence under Section 27(a) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. At Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court on 15 November 2006: Five men were […]

All of the major fish farms the Environment Agency thought were potentially linked to this summer’s outbreaks of Koi Herpesvirus have now tested negative. This includes both vaccinated and unvaccinated carp.  “As we now have sufficient evidence that fish from these farms were not the cause of this summer’s outbreaks, all of these fish farms […]

Fisheries experts are warned today (Tuesday) that steps to help develop Europe’s commercial fishing industry must not be taken at the expense of the region’s flourishing recreational sea angling business which is worth up to £7 million (€10 billion) annually.Richard Ferré, chairman of the National Federation of Sea Anglers in England, will say that recreational […]