Christmas Message To Anglers From Martin Salter

[TF_geepsterParticipant]

It’s great to be back and fighting for fishing in the UK and I would like to thank everyone who worked to make it possible for me to be appointed as National Campaigns Co-ordinator for the Angling Trust. This has given me the opportunity to contribute to promoting and improving the sport we all love.
My appointment was launched formally at the House of Commons on December 13th and attracted supportive quotes from Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon and from Charles Walker MP who succeeded me as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Angling when I retired from the House of Commons last year. It was also great to be starting off with strong support from representatives of all branches of angling including some of our best loved writers and commentators.
Over the next year, I will be working with the Angling Trust and Angling Trades Association and other organisations to:
• Support angling participation programmes
• Liaise with the angling trade and other bodies
• Lobby parliament and ministers
• Recruit members
• Campaign for angling and fisheries
• Raise the media profile of angling
• Provide strategy advice and policy development

ANGLING TRUST AMBASSADORS
We want to establish a network of 50 plus Angling Trust Ambassadors comprising high profile and well respected figures who would be happy to be associated with our efforts to promote angling, to improve and defend our fisheries and encourage anglers to get involved and to make a contribution towards securing a future for their sport.
It is a measure of the continuing success of the Angling Trust that more and more ‘big names’ are prepared to help us recruit new members and are happy to be associated with our work. They see supporting the Angling Trust as a great way of putting something back into our sport and we hope you do too!
We plan to launch the first 25 of our ambassadors early in the New Year so watch out for further announcements.

CORMORANT CAMPAIGN
We are working hard to get the rules changed to make it easier to control cormorant numbers and our campaign looks like getting real results for anglers.
I’ve arranged for Richard Benyon to visit the Lea Valley cormorant roost at Walthamstow where our CEO Mark Lloyd filmed the AT Cormorant Watch video so the minister can see the problem for himself. There will also be a high profile petition presentation in February from film maker Hugh Miles and the guys at the Avon Roach Project.
There is no doubt that the Angling Trust is on the rise and is becoming a strong, powerful and effective voice for anglers but we can only do it with your support. Make sure you get your fishing mates to join when you renew your own membership next year.
Hope to catch you catching on the bank!

Tight Lines and have a great Christmas, from all of us at the Angling Trust.

Martin Salter

[TF_caster robParticipant]

I didn’t need another reason not to join it, but thanks anyway.

[TF_Irk the purists]

Rob,

you are sooooooo bitter and twisted……

Martin Salter is a former MP who has championed angling issues tirelessly during his time in the Commons, he has the contacts to that could ensure that things that matter to anglers get the airing we need with DEFRA, MP’s, the press etc.

WHY is this a negative step?

What has he done for the sport that has been negative?

What have you done for the sport that has been positive?

:confused:

[TF_Johnny Mac]

Hear hear Irk, so much bitterness and negativity :confused:

[TF_caster robParticipant]

I don’t feel the need to have my angling promoted (to where?) or “improved” it’s just fine as it is thanks.

Not that these self-appointed bureaucrats seem to have bothered actually asking anyone.

I don’t want to be “represented”, and if I did, a failure in private industry and commerce who gravitated along the well-worn path to feeding off the public-sector teet via trade unions, shop-steward, local council, parasites all, would be the last person in the world I’d want to do it for me.

Hope that’s not too negative for any sensitive souls out there.

Almost forgot.

“WHY is this a negative step?”

Don’t know, didn’t say so – possibly your assumption?

“What have you done for the sport that has been positive?”

Err, what am I supposed to do?

It’s not even a sport, it’s a hobby.

I go fishing – end of.

Martin Salter:

“It is a measure of the continuing success of the Angling Trust that more and more ‘big names’ are prepared to help us recruit new members and are happy to be associated with our work.”

No shit?

Have you wondered how many of these “big names” rely on numpty anglers to line their pockets? No wonder they’re happy to be associated, all the way to the bank.

And that’s your measure of success – pitiful.

“We are working hard to get the rules changed to make it easier to control cormorant numbers and our campaign looks like getting real results for anglers.”

If only you’d “worked hard” when your party was in government for 13 years you may have had some success, shame you were too busy wrecking the economy and flooding us with immigrants, guess you just didn’t have the time.

[TF_bobby-joParticipant]

how can we take the angling trust serious when they carn,t even sort out the winter league semi,s, seems to me they just want to make money any way they can, dont think they will be having mine again when its up

[TF_orexina]

I do concur with some of the above comments.
If the AT really wants to come of age then getting the cormorants problem sorted would be the way to do it. I don’t know how many years I have been reading that it will be sorted soon.
Why do WE have to wait for everybody else to give us the OK to shoot them. We are the biggest sufferers of the problem, nobody else. We need to grab the bull by the horns and DO something instead of just talking, talking, talking.

As for the Winter League, this is heading for the tubes. How can the A. Times run it at a set price and as soon as A. Trust take it over start asking for much higher fees. That’ll kill it stone dead.

Yes I am a member as well.

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