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The Angling Trades Association (ATA)

The Angling Trades Association represents angling manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, publishers and distributors and is the Voice of the British Angling Industry.  Formed in 1977, the ATA remains the only trade body representing the angling industry.

It counts amongst its 60+ strong membership base a majority of the countries leading angling suppliers, as well as a number of the industries leading retailers.

Its function is to promote, represent and protect the trade across all three angling disciplines - sea, game and coarse fishing. In so doing it aims to achieve not only long-term stability for the sport but, more importantly, growth and development.

The Association is run by a board elected from its membership with the assistance of a technical director and secretarial guidance from the Federation of Sports & Play Associations (FSPA), the UK's largest sports trade body.   The ATA are one of 17 UK trade associations who operate under the umbrella of the FSPA.

ATA Press Pack

The new ATA Press pack is now available to media and related organisations to download for more information about the Association

Please navigate the menu to the left to find out more about the ATA and its members.

 

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Latest News

  • Scientists plumb the depths to ask how many fish in the sea
    A transparent sea cucumber, found at 2,750 meters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The Census of Marine Life estimates 230,000 species of animals in the world's oceans. Photograph: Larry Madin/Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution/Census of Marine Life
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  • Angling Trust Media Release Yorkshire Water Pays up for Wharfe Pollution
    Yorkshire Water has paid over £20,000 in compensation to two Yorkshire fishing clubs following a series of sewage pollutions in 2006
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  • Worries over UK fishing industry
    Britain's fishing industry cannot cope with demand, a report has said. The UK's fish supplies only last for seven months of the year, the research by independent think-tank nef (the new economics foundation) and OCEAN2012 found.
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  • Sole searching
    Fishing may seem an unlikely sport for teenagers, but it’s hooking those who aren’t engaged with conventional PE, have low self-esteem and struggle to concentrate, as Diana Hinds reports
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  • Brad Parkes selected as UK Angling Ambassador
    Five weeks ago local angler Bradley Parkes, Chairman of the youth angling group based at Carney Pools, Stafford entered a national competition promoted by the Go Fishing Show to find a UK Angling Ambassador.
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  • FISHING LINE THREAT TO WHALES
    WHALES are suffering ¬agonising deaths in Scottish waters because they are being lassoed by vast fishing ropes. A new report has found that half of all stranding deaths of the country’s most common whale are caused by the 4,500 miles of creel lines laid around the coastline.
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  • Angling Trust Media Release -------------- Legal Loophole Lets Poachers off the Hook
    The Angling Trust has learnt that DEFRA and the Environment Agency (EA) last year accidentally abolished the law which created an offence of fishing in the close season. This will lead to poachers and illegal anglers caught in this spring’s coarse fishing close season getting away with lesser offences when their cases go to court
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  • NATIONAL FISHING MONTH IS OFF TO A FLYING START
    For those of you who were around at 7am on Saturday 17th July 2010, you would have heard Dr Bruno Broughton, Angling Trades Association CEO, announce the start of National Fishing Month in an interview on BBC Radio Five Live, where he talked about the initiative, how much fun fishing can be and why people love the sport.
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  • Tope (Prohibition of Fishing Order 2008) Review
    In 2008 measures were introduced to protect tope, a vulnerable European continental-shelf and coastal shark species. Tope do not mature until they are around 12 years old and then produce a relatively low number of pups compared with other marine species (20 every 2-3 years), making them very vulnerable to fishing pressure.
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  • Number of anglers is at an all-time high
    New research has revealed that angling is more popular than ever before, with 20 per cent of the population having been freshwater fishing over the last 10 years. The Environment Agency-commissioned survey, involving face-to-face interviews with 2,304 people, asked the same questions as similar polls in 1997, 2001 and 200 5.
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  • ANGLING: Ignoring new bylaws will be a costly error
    IMPORTANT new fishing regulations have come into effect and there is now a total ban on taking freshwater eels, whether caught in stillwaters, river estuaries or the sea. The taking of other species of freshwater fishes is also affected, and it's important the regulations are followed as the fines for those caught ignoring them are on the large side.
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  • Slipping through our fingers: Tradition to die after 500 years because eel-catching family hasn't produced a male heir
    Keeping the family firm alive through the generations can be a tricky business. But it is proving a particularly slippery challenge for eel catcher Peter Carter. He fears his trade will disappear for good unless he can persuade his teenage daughter to follow in his footsteps
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  • Low river levels in the River Usk 'risking fish'
    The River Usk flows from Carmarthenshire, through Powys to Newport Low water levels in rivers are threatening wildlife and fish stocks, anglers are warning.
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  • Koi Herpesvirus (KHV) Disease - Health Status for England and Wales
    Following a lengthy consultation exercise and evaluation of the possible benefits and likelihood of success, it has been concluded an eradication programme will not be undertaken for KHV disease in England and Wales.
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  • Public Attitudes to Angling 2010 –
    Key Results from a survey of attitudes and participation in England and Wales for the Environment Agency
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  • FISHING – THE SPORT WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST
    There can be few sports with a wider appeal than angling. Research has revealed that more than four million British people enjoy fishing, and they include many well-known personalities from the ranks of the rich and famous. As one of the UK’s most famous TV faces, Chris Tarrant has an angling obsession that started when his granddad took him fishing on the Thames for perch when he was aged about four.

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