1. Mark Lloyd Chief Executive mark.lloyd@anglingtrust.net

2. Representation
Participation
Action
Overview

3. Representation: lobbying, campaigning
Writing Letters
Social media campaigns
Researching evidence
Petitions
Press releases
Parliamentary briefings
Media interviews
A lot of meetings!

4. We represent you at: All Party Parliamentary Angling Group
Angling summit
England Fisheries Group
Wales Fisheries Forum
European Anglers’ Alliance
Water Leaders Group
GB Invasive Non-Native Secretariat
National Drought Group
EC Strategic Co-ordination Group
EC Invasive Alien Species Regulation Working Group
Living Rivers Europe
Blueprint for Water
Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authorities
Marine Management Organisation
Canal & Rivers Trust
We represent you at:

5. Anglers’ Rights Bass bag limits Salmon catch & release
Access to piers and lakes
Parking charges
Canoeing
Three rod and free junior licence
Anglers’ Rights

6. The challenges on our rivers and lakes?

7. Reversing the decline
Our recommendations adopted in Agriculture Bill and Wales
Action on abstraction and reservoirs
Tidal power stuck in the mud
Salmon netting to end
New water company plans promising

8. Is the tide turning?
Recognition for sea anglers in draft Fisheries Bill
Potential for recreational Bluefin fishery?
New bass regulations promising

10. Brexit – threat or opportunity?
European directives and principles
25 year Environment Plan & Natural Capital
Agriculture & Fisheries Bills in 2018
Potential Recession?
SLIDE BULLETS
powerful, influential and we all contribute to the good of angling as a whole.

11. Independence & influence
Esmée Fairbairn Funding
Fishmongers + Fundraising Dinner
New Head of Campaigns
Partnership with WWF & TRT
Independence & influence

12. Angling participation: events, competitions, coaching, marketing

13. Getting people fishing 2014-18
1,800 events
100,000 people introduced
Trained hundreds of coaches
120 more coaches this year
Getting people fishing

14. Information & Marketing
110,000 visits to getfishing.org.uk
85,000 visits to fishinginfo.co.uk
marketing to 53,000 potential and lapsed anglers
Planning targeted marketing campaigns
Information & Marketing

15. Fishing to win Over 400 competitions 7,500 entries 29 national teams
World lure fishing championships
Talent pathway
Fishing to win

16. Investing in angling: clubs, fisheries, bailiffs, forums, advice

17. 500 volunteer bailiffs - 11,000 patrols - 25,000 hours
1,000 migrant young people taught the ways of UK fishing
Fisheries enforcement workshops
Co-operation with numerous police forces

18. Angling Improvement Fund
Reinvested £2m of rod licence funds in facilities
200,000 additional angling visits
51 projects last year for predation prevention

19. Advice & debate Funding roadshows
Fishery Management Advisors answered 900 queries
1,000 anglers attended 33 forums

20. Challenging Government to do more
76% Cut in government funding for fisheries in the last 10 years
Loss of expert staff with local knowledge
Anglers now fund 95% of cost of EA fisheries service

21. John Wilson RIP

22. Mark Lloyd Chief Executive mark.lloyd@fishlegal.net

23. Legal Action & Advice Six expert lawyers in house
Cost-free, risk-free legal action if your fishery is damaged
N.B. Only available to Fish Legal Members
WWF, HSBC support AT
Mark Owen in May last year
Mark has had success with 4 campaigns: Tame, Sussex Ouse, the Loddon, on the Norfolk Broads,
He continues to fight 8 other campaigns.
Hydropower: challenged locally, lobbied government, senior agency staff and on national radio
External funds from the Environment Agency for projects on: invasive non-native species, for helping clubs organise litter clean-ups and pilot to reduce poaching by Eastern European anglers.
WWF Judicial Review of River Basin Management Plans, prepared by the Environment Agency.

24. Fighting Cases 60 legal cases. 100% of compensation
e.g. Wellow Brook in Somerset and Willow Pool in Cheshire
£35,000 in damages and costs in September
Wye Foundation, Eden Rivers Trust, Wandle Trust etc.
SLIDE BULLETS
powerful, influential and we all contribute to the good of angling as a whole.

26. Southern Water Planning
Appointed expert hydrologist
Challenged Southern Water’s evidence
Plans for £50m pipeline to take water from Test to Itchen scrapped
Reservoir and desalination instead

27. River Devon Angling Association V Scottish Water
10,000 litres sulphuric acid, killing 5 miles of river
Refused compensation as club leased fishing
Appeal court => £15,000
River Devon Angling Association V Scottish Water

28. Advice matters Over 300 advice matters to members Expert Factsheets
One advice is worth more than the cost of membership
SLIDE BULLETS
powerful, influential and we all contribute to the good of angling as a whole.

29. Mark Lloyd Chief Executive mark.lloyd@anglingtrust.net