Striped Bass Study in USA
Stripers Forever a not for profit organization in USA is dedicated to making the striped bass a gamefish by eliminating commercial exploitation in the Number 1 recreational saltwater fishery on the east coast of America. [photo – a striped bass weighing approx 10 lbs, caught June 2005 by Steve Binckes at Chatham Light, Chatham, Cape […]
NW & NWWSFC Angling meeting
Minutes of a meeting of the North Western & North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee Angling Meeting held on 10 May 2005 at Deganwy, Conwy, (Courtesy of Steve Evans, SACN) Minutes of the meeting, as recorded by Steve Evans, SACN (NB. These minutes record Steve Evans’s (SACN) understanding of the meeting and intended actions arising therefrom. […]
BMP presentation in South Wales
Last night members of the BASS Restoration Project team (Malcolm Gilbert, Steve Pitts and John Leballeur) gave a powerpoint presentation of the ‘Bass Management Plan’ at a meeting organised by the South West Wales Association of Sea Angling Clubs at the Gowerton Conservative Club, South Wales. The meeting was well attended, with the audience made […]
Labour's new Charter for Angling
As promised last year Labour has produced a new Charter for Angling in consultation with the national representative organisations for the sport and government ministers. The Charter was written and co-ordinated by angling MP Martin Salter who is Labour’s Parliamentary Spokesman for Angling and Shooting. The document builds on Labour’s 1996 Angler’s Charter and is […]
BMP presentation to Ben Bradshaw
The Bass Anglers’ Sportfishing Society (BASS) supported by the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA) met with Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw on Tuesday 5 April 2005 prior to the Government being dissolved. The meeting took place at the invitation of the Minister to progress a package of conservation measures contained within the Bass Management Plan […]