Company Profile

About Angling Trust

The Angling Trust is the new, single organisation to represent all game, coarse and sea anglers and angling in England. We will lobby government, campaign on environmental and angling issues and run national and international competitions. We will fight pollution, commercial over-fishing at sea, over-abstraction, poaching, unlawful navigation, local bans and a host of other threats to angling.

Our Mission

As the governing body for all angling, the Angling Trust will seek government funding to develop the sport from grass roots participation through to elite performance. We will develop programmes with clubs to increase participation, particularly amongst groups who have yet to discover the joys of going fishing. We will protect the rights of all anglers to do what they love most. The Angling Trust has been formed from an historic merger of six angling and conservation organisations in January 2009. Other bodies, including the Angling Development Board, will merge with the Angling Trust in 2009.
The Angling Trust has a legal arm, Fish Legal, which will use the law to fight pollution and other damage to fisheries on behalf of member clubs, fisheries and riparian owners.