Mr Smith said the focus of recreational fishing in WA needed to be on the quality of the experience and enjoying eating fresh fish, not the 'fill the freezer' mentality of the past.

Marine biologists and philosophers have joined forces to support a controversial declaration of rights for whales and dolphins on the grounds that their astonishing intelligence and emotional empathy puts them on a par with humans.

An angling society is taking legal steps in a bid to prevent what it says is an environmental disaster at a lake.

Fish Legal has served a notice on the Environment Agency on behalf of Gwynedd-based Seiont, Gwyrfai, Llyfni Angling Society over Llyn Padarn in Llanberis, Snowdonia.

Much of southern and eastern England is officially in a state of drought, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced.

Biologists say they have found the rosette agent, a disease that has caused widespread damage in the United States, in a UK waterway for the first time.

The indiscriminate slaughter of vast numbers of turtles, sharks, albatrosses and other endangered marine animals that get unintentionally caught by fishermen as “by-catch” could be prevented by a radical proposal of mobile marine reserves, scientists said yesterday.

A GROUP of anglers from across Northern Ireland have swapped fishing rods for laptop computers, using the power of social networking sites to successfully lobby Stormont for an end to salmon exploitation.

The largest fishing vessel of its kind in Britain, designed and built in Cornwall, has been launched.

WILDLIFE lovers are calling for action to be taken to protect wild birds and animals from fishing line that is left at local beauty spots by negligent fishermen.

Severn Trent Water has been fined £24,000 after polluting Heapham fishing lake in Gainsborough for the fourth time in seven years.

The fisheries Coastal Affairs department has withdrawn the acquisition permit for the owner Nordland Fishing Company, for the vessel "Hekktind", due to serious cases of fish dumping.

Power firm EDF is to meet concerned anglers and boat owners from Burnham-On-Sea during a special meeting tomorrow night (Thursday) to discuss their concerns about lost fishing grounds caused by the planned expansion of Hinkley Point.

THE marine conservation organisation, Oceana, has hit out at the EU for its failure to offer greater protection to sharks and rays in the Mediterranean.

The government wants to establish a network of MPAs to protect marine ecosystems from human activities such as fishing to try to halt the decline in seabird populations.

A river in Wales has come up with a very simple but nonetheless effective control method.

They are asking every angler fishing the river Morrow to pull up fifty plants at every visit and it is proving an outstanding success.

A Gwynedd angling group says it wants to meet the Welsh government in a final bid to stop pollution spoiling rivers.