I was very sad today to read that Stuart Mcpherson has resigned from his post as Sea Angling Representative with the Angling Trust. Whitby Sea Anglers (WSA) learnt this morning that Stuart has now left the AT due to various reasons which will no doubt be made public in the long run. I look forward [...]
The Definition Of A Sea Angler
The Marine Committee of the Angling Trust meeting in June agreed that they would only represent recreational sea anglers. The meeting confirmed that the EAA definition of Recreational Sea Angling formulated in 2004 should be their criteria:
“Recreational sea angling is the activity of catching or attempting to catch fish, principally [...]
PRESENT: Stuart McPherson (SMcP) Chair, David Henry (DH), Alan Brothers (AB), John Brooks (JB), Dave Morton (DM), Leon Roskilley (LR), Peter McConnell (PMcC) and David Rigden (DR)
APOLOGIES: Nigel Proctor, David Rowe, Tony Williams, Mike Patten and Tim MacPherson
MINUTES OF LAST MEETING:
The minutes of the meeting held on the 25th February 2009 had been circulated and [...]
Officials from the Angling Trust and the European Anglers’ Alliance met today with Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg at the European Commission in Brussels to discuss the review of the Common Fisheries Policy and to raise concerns about the proposed regulation of Europe’s 10 million recreational sea anglers.
Joe Borg said at the meeting, and in a [...]
Chairman: Tony Burman Treasurer: Cath Breeze
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MINUTES OF GENERAL MEETING
HELD AT BEVERLEY
28TH MARCH 2009
PRESENT: Tony Burman (Chairman) Phil Arnott (Vice-Chair) Graham Asquith Stuart McPherson (Sec), , Rob Neale, Nigel Proctor, [...]
Angling Trust goes it alone with data collection exercise
The Angling Trust will be embarking on its own data collection exercise into Recreational Sea Angling (RSA) in the UK. This follows a series of difficult negotiations, which failed to find common ground in the way a DEFRA-sponsored survey on this subject would be carried out [...]
Angling Trust News Release
Stuart Mcpherson Elected Chairman Of The Angling Trust Marine Committee.
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An outspoken critic of apparent bias against recreational sea angling in the management of English sea fisheries has been elected chairman of the marine committee of the new Angling Trust, and to the trust’s board of directors.
Stuart McPherson has warned [...]
Stuart Mcpherson to replace Richard Ferre as the chairman of the AT Marine Committee.
Press release to follow
