Statement from the Angling Trust
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QUOTE (Anglers' Net @ Jul 16 2010, 12:57 PM) 
F***ed over AGAIN by one of their new eco friends. Well, well. Who would have thought it, eh?
They were warned, but hey, they know best. Don't they?
Now they know how real anglers feel, pot calling the kettle black. When are the trust going to get it in their thick heads that they don't rep all anglers or angling, they haven't asked for kick off's. Change it to: part national governing body And all is shows to me is the trust is much like the rest, bit players.
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The Trust disagrees wholeheartedly with these proposals in respect of angling and is furious that WCL did not consult the National Governing Body for angling before issuing the proposals
QUOTE (barry luxton @ Jul 17 2010, 08:30 AM)
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The Trust disagrees wholeheartedly with these proposals in respect of angling and is furious that WCL did not consult the National Governing Body for angling before issuing the proposals
The Trust disagrees wholeheartedly with these proposals in respect of angling and is furious that WCL did not consult the National Governing Body for angling before issuing the proposals
It just proves what many of us feared when it first showed it's head. Despite protestations to the contrary, the Trust now sees it'self as the Governing body, not the representative body.
Delusions of Grandeur, or just wishful thinking? Use a title often enough, and it assumes validity.
John.
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The Angling Trust is strongly opposed to a licence for sea anglers and holds firmly the position that fishing with rod and line in the sea should be a free right for people of all ages under current circumstances. The notion of charging sea anglers for access to public fishery resources whilst access for commercial over-exploitation of those same resources is free of charge, and heavily-subsidised, is perverse. Sea anglers have endured decades of failed fisheries management and commercial overfishing that have thoroughly degraded the sea angling product, so the idea of now charging them is like adding salt to an already raw wound.
If overfishing is brought to an end, depleted stocks restored, those who fish commercially are paying realistically for access to fish stocks and anglers are playing a full role in the process of formulating fisheries policy, then and only then will sea anglers be prepared even to discuss the merits of a licence.
If overfishing is brought to an end, depleted stocks restored, those who fish commercially are paying realistically for access to fish stocks and anglers are playing a full role in the process of formulating fisheries policy, then and only then will sea anglers be prepared even to discuss the merits of a licence.
Sea Angling is discussed as a "product"? It used to be a freedom; certainly has been all my life and for generations going back to.. well i don't know?
I realise the people involved in the AT are maybe well meaning, but i wish they would all go live their own lives and stop turning peoples rights into something to be traded in.
Chris
QUOTE (Jaffa @ Jul 18 2010, 12:43 AM)
Sea Angling is discussed as a "product"? It used to be a freedom; certainly has been all my life and for generations going back to.. well i don't know?
I realise the people involved in the AT are maybe well meaning, but i wish they would all go live their own lives and stop turning peoples rights into something to be traded in.
Chris
I realise the people involved in the AT are maybe well meaning, but i wish they would all go live their own lives and stop turning peoples rights into something to be traded in.
Chris
Unfortunately, all these people have in their sad, hollow, lives is their committees and meetings. So insignificant are they, that interfering with other people's lives is the only way they can bolster their (misguided) feelings of self importance.
IN an ever-changing world of politics, budget cuts and lobby groups, angling is in desperate need of a powerful governing body.
The Angling Trust must become this body but can only do so with support from anglers.
The trust has just stated its opposition to a proposal from Wildlife and Countryside Link that sea angling licences be introduced to help fund management of sea fisheries.
Big deal, has it really. Anglers have been doing just that for a while. And the quangos are on a sticky wicket in any event.
Certainly ain't going to get any support from the real rsa that i know of. For the past year all it has demonstrated is that it will appease the secular guys and ignore, or ride roughshod over the rest. Until they change their tune with regards to the rsa, they can go and swivel.
The rsa on their own back made enough noise to get the then minister to forget about a sea licence and it will happen again, what is the trust good for? Can't think of anything apart from worthless restriction, why doea a successful enterprise require a governing body, can anyone answer that, the trust can't nor justify it thats for sure.
The Angling Trust must become this body but can only do so with support from anglers.
The trust has just stated its opposition to a proposal from Wildlife and Countryside Link that sea angling licences be introduced to help fund management of sea fisheries.
Big deal, has it really. Anglers have been doing just that for a while. And the quangos are on a sticky wicket in any event.
Certainly ain't going to get any support from the real rsa that i know of. For the past year all it has demonstrated is that it will appease the secular guys and ignore, or ride roughshod over the rest. Until they change their tune with regards to the rsa, they can go and swivel.
The rsa on their own back made enough noise to get the then minister to forget about a sea licence and it will happen again, what is the trust good for? Can't think of anything apart from worthless restriction, why doea a successful enterprise require a governing body, can anyone answer that, the trust can't nor justify it thats for sure.
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