Beyond the Breakers
Sea Angling Blog from the Angling Trust
18 December 2025
Not Perfect, Not the Worst: CEO…
Over the past week, there has been a fair bit of noise online about the recent bass and pollack outc…
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17 July 2025
England’s 2025 Bluefin Tuna Season Opens
Friday 18 July 2025 marks the long-awaited opening of England’s Atlantic Bluefin Tuna recreational s…
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12 June 2025
A Turning Tide: Why Ending Bottom…
This week has felt like a swell of real momentum for our seas – and for the millions of us who…
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01 April 2025
As the Bass Season Opens, It’s…
As the bass season kicks off today (Tuesday, 1st April 2025), recreational anglers across the UK wil…
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27 March 2025
2025 UK-EU Fishing Agreement: No Progress…
Once again, UK and EU decision-makers have set commercial fishing limits that gamble with the future…
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03 March 2025
Angling Trust launches pollack survey to…
The Angling Trust is calling on the sea angling community to take part in a new survey on recreation…
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25 February 2025
Response to ‘Fishing News’ article: ‘More…
Recreational sea fishing representatives are disappointed to see the editorial published in Fishing…
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24 February 2025
All About the Bass: A Great…
On 8th July 2024, passionate bass anglers, scientists, and policymakers gathered for the inaugural &…
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20 February 2025
Bluefin Tuna catch and release fishery…
The UK government’s annual submission to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlant…
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19 December 2024
Approved! Sussex IFCA Minimum Size Byelaw:…
Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) has announced the approval of its Minimum…
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19 December 2024
UK Must Not Buckle to Brussels…
Brussels is set to demand that Britain surrender its fishing rights and adhere to European Union law…
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18 December 2024
Joint Fisheries Statement: What Sea Anglers…
As sea anglers, we’re always thinking about the future of our fisheries. Ensuring our seas are full…
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13 December 2024
Overdue Changes to Channel Commercial Fisheries…
The UK Government is finally implementing the Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) program, which recentl…
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12 December 2024
2025 UK-EU Fishing Agreement Charts Dangerous…
This year, UK and EU decision-makers have reached agreements on commercial fishing limits that threa…
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16 January 2024
Netting of Salcombe Estuary – An…
Following the Angling Trust’s response to the Devon & Severn IFCA’s consultation on a proposal t…
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10 January 2024
The Angling Trust submits its response…
The Angling Trust has now submitted our response to the Devon & Severn IFCA’s public consultatio…
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29 December 2023
The netting that threatens Salcombe –…
Our latest in a series of articles focusing on the very real risk of a net fishery being granted wit…
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20 December 2023
Salcombe – An update on the…
We previously published a story relating to Devon & Severn IFCA’s open consultation on ch…
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05 June 2023
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing: Why…
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, often referred to as IUU fishing, poses a significant…
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14 July 2021
Call for anglers to be vigilant…
The Angling Trust are asking anglers to be on the lookout for pink salmon and red skin disease in UK…
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06 July 2021
The Blue Shark: Wanderer of the…
“They’re beautiful – God, how beautiful they are! They’re an impossibly pe…
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02 July 2021
Take action to keep the sea…
It’s no secret that our oceans are drowning in plastic, so how can we as sea anglers promote a plast…
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