Campaign For The Protection Of Welsh Fisheries

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I thought it was time to get a web site up and running that enabled those that are interested to get the details of the Campaign and its progress from a single source. This is not me trying to go into competition with Steff or any other of you wiz kids out there. It is just a simple site which included contact details.

If you wish to get others involved, and we need all the support we can get, just direct them to this site and they can see what we are all about. Please feel free to add a link to the Campaign site as you will.

If you have comments, and I hope there will be plenty, please make them here on this forum and lets get some momentum back into the Campaign prior to the pending launch.


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Hope you find it interesting and thanks again for all your support.

Regards

Highplains

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The Campaign goes on TV.

I am delighted to report that The Campaign is being covered by BBC Wales tonight at 6:30. Radio Cymru early morning news and S4C possible tonight or tomorrow.

I did the BBC Wales section Dyfed Jones one of our committee members did the Welsh programmes and for that I can only say a really big thank you.

No comments on my casting ability please. It was blowing hard and I am not a natural exhibitionist. I do however expect and will thoroughly deserve any adverse comments. Please go easy

Big thanks to the Beeb

Highplains

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I have copied the post below from another thread on the grounds that all anglers should be aware of the actions they can take to report illegal activity and how to complain if the Agency fail to take action.

Please take a few seconds to read it and take the advice given

Regards.

Highplains

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Its got me gobsmacked that a license holder doesn't know who to contact when theres a whiff or sighting of illegal activity be it netting or of any other type suspected fishy activities

The 1st point about the commercial netting activity you refer to involving The sandeel fishermen is that they are NOT allowed to take Salmon and Sea Trout... they are not commercially licensed by the EA to do so and therefore operating illegally.
Fishery law and local restrictive netting applications will prevent such activities from ever being licensed in the future

The EA is the 1st point of contact on 0800 807060 ( 24hr hotline) and
when you ring it, give all the information you know including knowledge of vehicles, persons involved. where exactly it is happening, times of observation etc
when you have done this, tell the EA you want full and complete feedback.
This will ensure that your complaint "HAS" been read and hopefully passed on and investigated.

If you see such problems actually happening, make the phone call immediately and ask for IMMEDIATE ATTENDANCE and give your observing position so the EA officer can meet and discuss your observation.
If they cannot attend then they should be required to contact you and tell you so,,, then the police should be notified as they have all the same powers of a water bailiff and vice versa as deemed by present fishery legislation being Section 36 -Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975.

Where complaints are made to the hotline and no action is later found to have not taken when you receive feedback or Not as the case maybe having requested it, then under the EA's customer Charter you should make a complaint about the failure.

The EA is in possession of the Government's Charter Mark which requires very high standards of Customer care to be provided and where a Charter holder is found to fail those standards then Number 10 will remove its award
See the EA website regarding the Charter conditions which is found at :
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/aboutus/582759/
and if you wish to make a complaint about a failure to investigate then the info is also to be found at
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...sion=1&lang=_e


I hope this helps all other forum members

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Highplains,

I saw something on the news last night regarding this? was that you? Fantastic if it was, and well done you!

TT.

[Simon]

Alan

Good to see you on Wales Today last night. Great to see that our rivers are getting a mention, sure this report will create an awareness amongst the public.

Simon

[Highplains]

Will any of you guys be at the launch 11:15 steps of the Senedd Cardiff. 15th July?

Will be nice to meet you if you can make it.

Regards.

Highplains

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I hope you can read the last post which is the full content of the appeal as presented to the Minister yesterday.

I believe some photo's will be published soon so I will leave any comments to the "posters"

Please take the time to read your campaign contents and please let us have your comments.

If you have difficulty reading the post, there is a copy on

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Which may be easier to read.

Please comment and let us have your views. The Campaign is now officially launched and teh work to get protection for our fisheries starts now!!

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Better security sought on rivers

Jul 22 2008 by Steve Dube, Western Mail

GAME, coarse and sea anglers in Wales have joined forces for the first time to campaign for increased security on Welsh rivers.

Organisations representing 20,000 fishermen and women have come together under the umbrella of the Campaign for the Protection of Welsh Fisheries, and representatives travelled to the National Assembly last week to appeal for urgent action to combat illegal angling and poaching.

They are taking action against the background of a dramatic drop in the number of river bailiffs, which they say has left them without protection.

Wynne Griffiths, secretary of the Ogmore Angling Association, said 180 bailiffs once patrolled Welsh riverbanks. There were now fewer than 30.

“The Ogmore used to have five bailiffs and now there are none,” said Mr Griffiths, a co-founder of the new body.

“And there has been a large increase in the number of incidents on the river and on the Afan – both urban rivers close to large areas of population.

“We are always pulling nets and snares out of the river and I have a collection of rods that we’ve confiscated from illegal anglers.”

Mr Griffiths said the club has its own bailiffs, but these have no legal status or powers.

“We have to rely on our own members to police the river and several have been threatened,” he said.

“One of our members was stoned off the river late at night. I asked a group of lads if they had licences and they became abusive and booted my car.”

Mr Griffiths said there were similar problems all over Wales and the campaign was supported by all the big clubs.

“We set up the campaign because we noticed there was a lot of discontent on internet forums, and it quickly took off,” he said.

The anglers blame cuts in the Environment Agency budget for decimating the network of bailiffs that once policed the rivers, and say it is counter-productive as the increase in illegal fishing is threatening valuable fish stocks. They want the Welsh Assembly Government to increase its contribution.

“The sole aim of the campaign is to secure increased funding to provide more bailiffs,” said Mr Griffiths.

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Better sea trout and salmon fisheries:
the EA at it again.

The Environment Agency offered the draft of this strategy for our comments earlier in the year, I wonder how many bothered to respond?
The document is worth a read, it is only 30 pages plus a glossary of terms.

Essentially it is well thought out, constructive and well intentioned, albeit biased towards activities for which various forms of funding can be acquired from the EU, but that too is no bad thing.

It would seem that our push for better enforcement has been acknowledged in that there is actually reference in the document to the subject of enforcement

1. Page 6: “we will continue to work to ensure that illegal exploitation is minimised and to secure effective penalties for offenders.”
2. Page 8: ”Deploy enforcement and crime prevention using a risk based, targeted and intelligence lead approach”
3. Page 17: “Apply intelligence lead enforcement and crime prevention to provide effective protection of stocks”
4. Page 17: “Under who will do what. The Government will provide funding for “anti poaching enforcement”
5. Page 18: “ We will engage with local interests to deploy targeted, intelligence lead and risk based enforcement”
6. Then, when you think we may have made some progress, and in total disregard of all our appeals they stick in the following paragraph:
Our records suggest a decline in levels of poaching that may be linked to fewer wild fish and increased availability of farmed salmon as well as targeted enforcement. Our review in 2004 concluded that whilst exploitation needed more control in some places, overall other factors were equally or more important.


I now add the words of the EAW themselves, taken from their recently published review of Welsh Fisheries Enforcement.

9.0 Estimating the Level of Illegal Exploitation and Activity

At the present time, there is no measure of our achievement in reducing illegal exploitation and until now we have had no estimate of the total illegal catch for Wales.

Yes, in their own words: they have no idea! They really are taking the Mickey!

Now for the bad news:
References to limiting legal exploitation: angling and the imposition of controls.
1> Page 6: “As a general principle we want to reduce the exploitation of at risk stocks and will seek to agree voluntary restraints or use mandatory controls on fishing to ensure stocks are sustained whilst fishing opportunities are optimized.”
2> Page 17: “Use better regulation to achieve effective and sensitive control of exploitation”
3> When determining fishing controls, we must first aim to secure the conservation of stocksthen, in deciding the best controls to apply, we will consider the economic and social benefits so as to deliver a productive and self sustained fishery”

The Arrogance of the Environment Agency

The EA, it seems, is determined to ignore our plea for effective enforcement yet they include the following as a “eye catcher” on page 23

The salmon is listed under the European Community Habitats Directive
as a species requiring protection.
It is amongst those wild species that Member States must maintain at,
Or restore to a favorable conservation status.

Shame on the Environment Agency Wales and to those that develop the meaningless and glaringly inappropriate performance targets and indicators that drive the fisheries section of the Agency. You must start to listen to your experienced front line staff before they are all lost to old age and the frustrations of working for the Agency.

Highplains

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Fellow forum members,

To save you trying to navigate the Environment Agency web site I have added a page to the campaign web site "EAW Comments". Hear I have added a copy of their 2008 to 2021 strategy so that you can read it. I have also included our comments on the strategy.

Please take a few minutes to read this document it will govern our angling for the next 13 years so it really does matter. Then please comment.

Highplains

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Thursday 4th September 2004

FOR THE URGENT ATTENTION OF ALL ANGLERS

Copy of email from Andy Schofield one of the top fisheries managers with the Environment Agency Wales. (I apologies to Andy for not including his correct title, I will obtain it and edit this note to include it later.)

Please read this document carefully print it out and please pass it on to your club secretaries and ask them to either:

1. Post comments on the forum.
2. Email their comments to me: highplains@fsmail.net
3. Send comments to admin@cpwf.co.uk
4. Reply via Contact on http://www.cpwf.co.uk/

It is really important that you take the opportunity to comment this is an opportunity to HAVE YOUR SAY.

Your individual comments will also be most welcome. I will collate responses and send them, together with our response to Andy Schofield at the Environment Agency Wales.

As usual I post this comment from Andy without any comment at this stage.

Regards.

Highplains

MESSAGE STARTS

Hi Allan,

As you are aware I met up with Mark Isherwood, AM at the Royal Welsh Show
and had a constructive chat about the Review and how we might resolve
some of the issues between ourselves and the campaigners. One of the
ideas that Mark and I discussed was to make use of an 'independent'
body/person to assess the scale of illegal activity as this is one of
the main areas of difference between us. Clearly, if the Agency
appointed someone without consulting yourselves it would probably be
regarded as being biased, and vice versa, so coming up with suggestions
as to who might be able to provide this would be a good start. My
thoughts at present are :

(1) Ask if one of the police forces or another enforcement Agency would
do this for us. Poaching is high on the list of Wildlife Crime
priorities for the Police.

(2) There is a 'pool' of retired high ranking police officers with
various areas of specialism who could be contracted to do some of the
work.

(3) We ask the National Wildlife Crime Unit based in Berwick to become
involved.

(4) The Jill Dando Institute in London may be able to help although
their role is more about criminal profiling.

Clearly, there will be costs associated with the above options and that
might be a factor in determining which option is selected. It won't be
an easy task for whoever is selected - even a House of Commons Committee
concluded that the scale of wildife crime was virtually unknown and
without suitable measures how could resources be allocated (see
attached).

The new strategy that I will soon be presenting to WAG is based on some
of the Jill Dando Institutes recommended approaches to crime reduction,
mirrored by some police forces and builds upon the successful Pride In
our Communities Campaign currently being implemented throughout Wales.

I have included a set of measures within the Strategy that if we started
to use might provide a more transparent picture of what is happening.
Once these have been given the OK internally and then by the Minister,
we should be in a position to circulate more widely.

If you or your fellow campaigners have any thoughts as to who else might
be considered please get in touch.

Regards,

Andy
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I am delighted to be able to announce that the Campaign has the official support of Baroness Golding. Her support is greatly welcomed as she just happens to be the secretary of the House of Lords Angling Group.


We still need you to sign up to officially support the Campaign. Please gather the names and locations of your family and friends who are willing to offer support, pass them on to me and I will add them to the list.

Many thanks.

Highplains

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I am posting this copy of a flier as a reminder to all anglers to ensure that they complete and return their catch returns accurately.

The EA use the catch returns as a means of calculating the number of fish in our rivers and thereby assess they "viability" of the stock. If you understate your return then the result will NOT be more stocking, it could well result in the closure of your river.

There is up do 30% difference between the catch returns made to clubs and those made to the EA. Under reporting your catch is madness.

One consequence may be the following and it could be your water!!!!!


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It will be a big help to the Campaign if members will post comments on the EAW proposal, as posted under the Campaign for the Protection of Welsh Fisheries thread, so that we can respond in a meaningful way.

I appeal to all anglers to pass on details of the Campaign website:

http://www.cpwf.co.uk/

It is important that we spread the message. The season is closing fast so we must use the coming break to make our case and improve on the numbers.

It is your Campaign, run by anglers, for anglers to fight for the protection of our fisheries.


Come and join us - it matters.

Highplains

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This is a copy of an item from the Angling Times. The EAW know about this and the fact that it has been going on but what has been done about it?

That's right, you guessed.

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This is why the Campaign must succeed!!

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Unfortunately we do not have a new broom that is likely to sweep clean. Same old same old tosh. Please read this and try to remain calm. "Intelligence lead enforcement......catch red handed" I leave you to make up your own minds. Then go to

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CAMPAIGN FOR THE PROTECTION OF WELSH FISHERIES

On behalf of the Campaign may I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a happy New Year, good health, happiness and tight lines for the coming year.

And a big thank you for your continued support throughout the past year for which we are very grateful. We hope to be able to exert even more pressure on the politicians next year and to persuade them that they have to adequately fund the protection of our fisheries.

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Please take a minute to listen to this news item. Let's hope they can keep to the point and not get side tracked by vested interest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7827000/7827868.stm

I will contact the Trust to see if they are willing to join in our Campaign or if we can tie up in some way.

It is time the sleeping giant that is the angling community woke up and stood up for itself!!

Highplains

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Mark Isherwood A.M chasing teh Minister for a response

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At Last!
IMMEDIATE BAN ON SALES OF ROD-CAUGHT SALMON AND SEATROUT: OBLIGATORY TAGGING OF COMMERCIALLY CAUGHT FISH

S&TA hails breakthrough in salmon conservation



Anglers will no longer be able to sell salmon or sea trout caught on rod and line, and all commercially caught fish will have to be tagged by netsmen to make them legally saleable. The new Environment Agency byelaw for England and Wales becomes active on January 31st.


This legislation brings England and Wales in line with Scottish law, which banned the sale of rod caught salmon and sea trout in 2007. However, the carcass tagging of commercially caught fish is a step further than Scotland, and mirrors the successful initiative run for several years in Ireland.


Paul Knight, Chief Executive of the Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA), said; “This is the culmination of many years of lobbying by S&TA and colleagues, and is great news for salmon conservation and the enforcement of anti-poaching laws. Most anglers act responsibly by keeping the odd fish for the pot – the majority of rod caught salmon are now released alive back into the water – but a minority have always sold their fish for profit and, as a result, have had a significant impact on some local river stocks, jeopardising management and conservation measures by fishery managers. It will now be very much harder to so sell fish ‘under the counter’, because hotels, restaurants and fishmongers will be prosecuted if the salmon and sea trout in their possession is not properly tagged.”

Knight adds; “The EA and Defra should be congratulated for taking this action, which has been possible as a byelaw under the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975. It is a welcome step towards more efficient enforcement of illegally caught salmon and sea trout, as effort can now be put into monitoring markets rather than having to spend so much time catching poachers in the act of taking fish – a notoriously difficult and resource sapping exercise.”

The ban of the sale of rod caught fish and carcass tagging were major recommendations following the review of fisheries legislation by the Warren Committee in 2000. The Review Group’s work was shadowed by the Moran Committee, a coalition of leading English and Welsh fisheries and angling organisations chaired by Lord Moran, Chairman of S&TA at the time. S&TA took a lead role in giving evidence to the Warren Committee over salmon and sea trout issues, and has since kept up pressure for action on these vital issues.

S&TA Chairman, James Carr, says, “This is an excellent example of why S&TA received charitable status for its fisheries, environmental and educational work. We have lobbied for anglers to be banned from selling salmon and sea trout in the greater interest of salmon conservation, and the vast majority of fellow anglers agree with our stance. We can still enjoy our sport while contributing hugely to the social, economic and environmental benefits derived by communities from angling and fisheries management - angling truly working for the public benefit”.

ENDS

Cheers Aled

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This is indeed a step in the right direction. It does however raise an interesting point. Who is going to enforce this?

We need more enforcement officers. if they are going to have to police this as well one wonders?

Highplains


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I have just updated the Campaign web site with the 2009 Welsh Fishing Bye Laws. Easy guide in both English and Welsh and the full document.

Any queries regarding Bye Laws in Wales please refer queries to the Campaign web site for an easy to find reference.

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Tight lines for 2009

Highplains

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Reply from Minister following Mark Isherwoods request.

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Just a note to let you know that the Camapign web site has been updated and includes some useful references.

The EAW bye laws are there - full version as wellas the anglers easier verion

Copies of consultation papers

Current initiatives

Communications to and from the EAW and WAG

A simple sign up form

Please have a look and pass the link onto your contacts and ask them to have a look. Please remember this is our Campaign and it can only succeed as long as we work at it; so if you have any issues, campaigns or gripes that you would like publishing on the site just let me know and |I will do my best.

Thanks for your continued support.

Highplains

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The copy letter below is from the Minister in response to a query by Steve Pettite, a keen campaigner on behalf of the sea anglers and a great supporter of the Campaign for the Protection of Welsh Fisheries.

The reason I am posting this copy is to draw your attention to the fact that Minster is clearly not interested in Steve's appeal because previously she had sought views and few were forthcoming. This means we have to keep applying pressure and we have to respond when they seek our views: failure to do so is translated by the politicians as "don't care" or "great, we can do as we like!"

This letter is typical of this Minister. We still await her response to our last appeal.

I think this as well as recent events indicate that many of our politicians are getting a little too self satisfied and complacent.


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After several months of relative quiet on the Campaign front you could be forgiven for thinking we had given up the fight: not so! We have been working hard in the background to establish a meaningful working relationship with the Environment Agency Wales. Having spent so long knocking the Agency we have now come to the realisation that the target for the Campaign must be the Welsh Assembly Government. We have to persuade them of the necessity to fund the Agency sufficiently for the Agency to employ sufficient bailiffs to protect our fisheries properly. In order to do this we have agreed to work with the Agency to establish a meaningful estimate of the level of illegal fisheries activity in Wales. In order to do this the Agency have agreed to work in partnership with us on the Clwyd and Elwy system in running an experiment, the success of which will be highly dependant upon anglers and the public using the system. (Full details of this scheme are available on the new interactive web site.)

It was our original intention to launch the new interactive Campaign site on the 1st of July this year, and this remains the case, however the Conwy Valley Fisheries Conservation Association is now launching its appeal to the Welsh Assembly Government in an effort to secure the protection of the spawning redds of our salmonoids from the devastating damage caused by canoeists and gorge runners, who are causing untold damage with their unrestricted access to our waters. For this reason we are pre launching the Campaign site as a gesture of our support for this important initiative. We wish them well. (Full details of this initiative can be found on the Campaign web site.)

The new site is interactive and includes a forum for Campaign issues only please, as we have no wish to compete with this or other forums to which the Campaign owes so much of its success.

The new site also has a link for you to report illegal fisheries activity to us and to the Agency. Please call the 0800 80 70 60 number immediately you become aware of illegal activity. The Campaign link can be used anonymously or you may leave your contact details if you wish. We guarantee your confidentiality. Nobody will know who you are!

The new interactive site will develop as you want it to. Send us videos, stills sequences of fly tying techniques, tackle rigs, anything angling related. For the moment you can find on the “FUN STUFF” page:

Videos
Tide tables
Phases of the moon
Weather and more.

If you would like other items please let us know. Your own articles and tips will also be welcome. Oh, and the forum links are there too! If you really are fed up and missing your fishing: feed the fish on the home page, just click over the “pond” to drop bread on the water. (The things we do to get your attention?)

Please go to cpwf.co.uk and have a look around, bookmark the page and visit us regularly. We look forward to your feedback.

Many thanks from us all.

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Campaign News:
International Casting Champion and Celebrity Angler Hywel Morgan has pledged his support to the Campaign For The Protection Of Welsh Fisheries

See the campaign homepage for further details: www.cpwf.co.uk

Other News:
Following on from Medicine's comments:
There is a mini war happening on the campaign website at the moment with regard to the canoeing debate, and we do, without question, need your support and votes. Loads of activity is going on behind the scenes with writing letters to MP's etc etc etc but the canoeists have picked up on the campaign and are trying to out vote us anglers on the CVF&CA webspace we created for them, these votes will be used as part of future discussions with the various agencies and governemnt departments:

Go to this link to see for yourselves: http://cpwf.co.uk/home/?page_id=320

**Also on that page are copies of the campaign letters

Come on - do your bit, the canoeists are, they have amassed approx 275 votes in a couple of days.

The canoesists have also joined our forum and there is a bit of a debate going on, if you fancy giving your two penneth.

Forum Link: Campaign CVF&CA Forum

We do really need your help guys, and while your there vote for all the other initiatives.

**PS - The system only allows you to vote once, so tell your friends, work colleagues - everyone.

Thanks,

Alec
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The Campaign Team may have been relatively silent for the past month or two, but we have not been idle.

You will remember we started by slating the Environment Agency about the appalling lack of enforcement on our rivers. It is a national disgrace, about that there can be no doubt, but what can we practically do about it?

We tried appealing to the Welsh Assembly Government. What did they do?

They instructed the Environment Agency to carry out a review of their enforcement policy nationally.

The Environment Agency did as they were asked: their report was presented to the Welsh Assembly Government.

That report can be read on the Campaign web site at www.cpwf.co.uk . What did it say? In essence and to greatly over simplify “we have no idea of the level of illegal activity taking place on Welsh fisheries and lack the facilities identify it”

The Environment Agency then offered the Campaign the chance to suggest just who should try to establish the truth. The Agency made suggestions: university specialist departments; the police and several more.

We had no faith in any third party because of the very special nature of poaching and the fact the crimes are victimless. (The fish have no voice.)

So where do we go from here?

We take the bull by the horns and offer to do it ourselves!

This is just what we have done and now we have to do it. When we say we, we mean all of us; the angling community and as many of our friends as we can persuade to help.

The 0800 80 70 60 hotline number as lost all credibility: few anglers have any faith in it and even fewer use it. The problem is that the reports from the 0800 80 70 60 number are used as the basis for assessing the level of illegal activity. No reports = no illegal activity. Can we address this issue?

We think so. We have, in partnership with the Environment Agency, set up an online reporting system. You can go to the Campaign web site and report an incident on line, and we get a copy. So now you can use the 0800 80 70 60 number to report an incident that requires an immediate report requiring potentially immediate attention by Agency enforcement staff then, later, you can confirm that report on line and as we get a copy we can start to build our own data base to build up a picture of illegal activity taking place. We can, if you all help. Please encourage all your angling friends and contacts to not only use the 0800 80 70 60 but to confirm their calls on the Campaign Report an Incident page. All details remain 100% guaranteed anonymous: no conditions – anonymous.

Please ask your club or syndicate to add a link to our report and incident page or just to the Campaign site and ask your members to use the facility.

We have been offered the opportunity to help ourselves: please use it.

There are other ideas in the pipeline and as they develop we will keep you informed.

This is our chance to help ourselves. Please join in. This is our Campaign!

Please take a few minutes to have a look at the Campaign site www.cpwf.co.uk and look and see how we are working to start to help protect our fisheries. We are a single issue campaign.

Please hep and please comment here or by contacting us via the web site.

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Guys,

The Campaign web site now has the facility to allow on line reporting of illegal activity on our fisheries. Please add this link to your club or syndicate web site telling your members that they can confirm their 0800 80 70 60 calls direct to the EAW on line.Please ensure they check the North Wales or South Wales box. Mid will be added shortly when we get the EA connection details.

http://www.cpwf.co.uk/campaign/report-an-incident

This is partnership working the Campaign and the Environment Agency Wales working together to try to establish the actual level of illegal activity on our fisheries.

You can of course use the on line facility for reporting any intelligence that may help or indeed pollution or waste thrown into our waters.

Please help us to fight for the funds to enable the EAW to employ more staff to protect our fisheries.

0800 80 70 60 for immediate reporting of an incident in action followed by confirmation on the Campaign web site.

Campaign web site to post any information that may help the existing enforcement staff establish "trends" or help with intel' tips.

Please help protect your fish and fishery