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Cormorant Watch Hits 50,000 |
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Following a high level intervention by the Angling Trust last year Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon announced at the 2011 Angling Summit in the House of Commons that he is now prepared to take "bold decisions" and overhaul the procedures for controlling cormorants and other fish eating birds that are causing so much damage to our game and coarse fish stocks.
The Angling Trust is in there fighting on your behalf to get the best possible deal for anglers. We have attended several meetings of the new Defra Licensing Review group along with representatives from the RSPB, Natural England and others. There are more of these meetings planned, and we are currently undertaking a major research project to develop detailed case studies of the damage caused by fish-eating birds based on the information that our members and others have sent us.
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New River Trust for West Cumbria |
 Anglers have welcomed the creation of the new West Cumbria Rivers Trust (WCRT) which covers those parts of Cumbria (or most of them) not covered previously by the other two Cumbrian river trusts. Its creation is an important piece in the national rivers trusts jigsaw which have played an ever increasing role over the last decade or so in environmental improvements throughout the country.
WCRT's principal objectives are to improve the acquatic environment of the rivers, lakes and wider catchments in the western and north western parts of the Lake District. Within their area are the rivers Ellen, Derwent, Ehen, Calder, Esk, Irt and Mite and their tributaries and the lakes of Derwentwater, Thirlmere, Bassenthwaite, Crummock, Buttermere, Loweswater, Ennerdale and Wastwater. The Trust has already hit the ground running with numerous projects on the go and ambitious forward plans. more details on their website at westcumbriariverstrust.org
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