Beyond the Breakers
Sea Angling Blog from the Angling Trust
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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