Dolphin deaths
The Natural History Museum are currently licensed by Defra to investigate and analyse all reports of whale and dolphin strandings around the UK coast. They respond to every reported finding (tel. 020 7942 5155) and aim to determine the cause of the stranding by carrying out on site investigation and even autopsies when the condition […]
Obituary – John Darling
John Darling ( 1946 – 2004) John Darling was a native of east Sussex, and apart from a short time as a student in Oxford, and some time in “the smoke”, working as a Night Security Guard (to give him more time during the day for fishing, he explained), spent all his life in the […]
RSA debate in Parliament
10.44 pm Mr. Robert Key (Salisbury): Salisbury may be landlocked, but my father taught me to fish in river, loch and sea. As a teenager, I tied my own flies for trout fishing in the chalk rivers around Salisbury. Family summer holidays were spent sea fishing around the Summer isles, Raasay and the Fal estuary […]
BASS CFP response
On behalf of the BASS Restoration Project, Steve Pitts has made the following formal reply To: Mr Mark Holden, Sea Fisheries Conservation Division, Room 423b Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR On: 14th June 2002 Reference: The European Commission Proposals On The Future Of The Common Fisheries Policy. Dear Mr Holden Thank you […]
Digger Derrington
Philip Hyde wrote to us with the following sad news, and a personal tribute which we echo. One of BASS founder members and early committee member N. J. (Digger) Derrington, died at his home in Yeppoon, near Rockhampton, Northern Queensland, Australia, in the last week of April. During the war with the Japanese, he was […]