News headlines May 13
06.03.13 CHARITY’S COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF RIVERS QUESTIONED Fish Legal, a not-for-profit membership association, has used a freedom of information request to reveal that the Canal & River Trust (CRT) has earmarked 45 sites on 14 rivers for commercial development of hydropower; a money-making programme which could cause great damage to fish stocks and...
06.03.13 Team Daiwa Dorking win the Winter League Southern Semi Final at Gold Valley Lakes - Preview
Cold but otherwise perfect conditions greeted the 100 competitors to the first Southern semi final of the Angling Trust Winter League at Gold Valley Lakes, Aldershot on Saturday 2nd March 2013.
06.03.13 Talented England Feeder anglers to compete at the European Feeder Friendly in Holland
The Van Der Eyde European Feeder Friendly International will be taking place again this year on 6th-7th April in Holland on the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal.
04.03.13 Angling Trust publishes ‘a dossier of destruction’ highlighting the case for better controls on cormorants and goosanders The Angling Trust has today published a comprehensive 10,000 word report highlighting the damage done to fisheries and wild fish stocks in the UK as a result of a fifteen fold increase in cormorant numbers over the last 25 years. The report includes a comprehensive case study on the decline of the...
