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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 Chief executive  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

  • NATIONAL FISHING MONTH – OFF TO A FLYING START
    National Fishing Month 2012 (NFM) takes place between 20th July and the 27th August, and with over 100 events already listed online at the new website www.nationalfishingmonth.com , organisers are hoping that this year will be bigger and better than ever.
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  • Angling for Scouts
    The Angling Trust is launching a new initiative to encourage more scouts to try fishing and get their angling badge by teaming up with its member clubs and fisheries to provide coaching to scout troops. The Environment Agency created the angling badge for the Scouts 3 years ago, and nearly 50,000 packs were requested by Scout troops. However, the take-up was limited because many scout leaders didn’t have the necessary angling skills. This new joint initiative by the Angling Trust, with funding support from the Environment Agency, will enable expert licensed coaches to help Scouts get their angling badge and learn how to fish.
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  • Angling Trust Tackles Coastal Litter With 'Just Take 5' Campaign
    Help stop litter spoiling our beaches and coastline - that's the message the Angling Trust is sending out to sea anglers with the national launch of its Just Take 5 campaign.
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  • Angling Trust and Angling Development Board Merger Completed - Angling Trust Media Release
    The Angling Development Board (ADB) has today become part of the Angling Trust following a merger of the two organisations, their assets and staff, to create a single representative and national governing body for the sport of angling in England which employs more than 40 professional staff, including those employed by Fish Legal, the legal arm of the Angling Trust, which operates throughout the UK.
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  • FREE FISHING LICENCE
    The TAKE A FRIEND FISHING promotion is back to encourage thousands of parents, grandparents and friends to take the time over the Easter break to give family members and friends the chance to have a go at fishing. Particularly if there’s nothing they want to watch on the TV and they have an extra few days off work!
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  • Minister urged to halt spread of beavers carrying lethal parasites - Angling Trust Media Release
    The Angling Trust has today written to Fisheries and Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon urging him to authorise the trapping and lethal control of beavers to halt their spread into England from Scotland following the failure of the Scottish government to contain populations within a number of trial release sites. This might involve applying to the European Commission for an exemption to the beaver’s European Protected Status to allow them to be controlled and their dams to be dismantled, which has been done in other member states.
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  • Cormorant Campaign goes to Parliament - Angling Trust Media Release
    Angling Trust and Salmon & Trout Association campaigners were joined by celebrities Chris Tarrant and Feargal Sharkey when they presented a 16,000 signature petition organised by the Avon Roach project to Richard Benyon MP on Wednesday (22nd Feb). The petition called for action to limit the devastating impact of the UK's rapidly increasing cormorant population and its effect on inland freshwater habitat and ecosystems.
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  • Angling Rolls Out Its Big Guns To Protect Fisheries From Cormorant Invasion - Angling Trust Media Release
    TV host Chris Tarrant and UK Music boss Feargal Sharkey to join petition handover to Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon. Campaigners from the world of angling will be joined by celebrities Chris Tarrant and Feargal Sharkey when they handover a 16,000 signature petition on Wednesday (22nd Feb) calling for action to limit the devastating impact of the UK’s rapidly increasing cormorant population and its effect on inland freshwater habitat and ecosystems.
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  • Angling Research
    A number of stakeholders including the Angling Trust, ADB and the Angling Trades Association attended a conference run by Substance this week where a final report on angling was presented to Richard Benyon and a number of representatives from government departments.
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  • Angling Trades Association Warns Against Illegal Lead Fishing Weights
    Anglers are being urged to avoid purchasing lead weights in sizes that are illegal for angling use. The call – made by the Angling Trades Association (ATA) – comes after it conducted research into the sale of lead shot on the internet and in ‘pound shops’. This revealed that some illegal weights are being offered for sale, leaving both the sellers and the users liable to prosecution.
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  • Salter is back fighting for fishing
    Big names from the worlds of fishing and politics have this week welcomed the appointment of former parliamentary angling spokesman Martin Salter as the new National Campaigns Coordinator for the Angling Trust. Martin, who stood down from the House of Commons at the last election, has recently returned from 'a fishing and writing sabbatical' in Australia which saw him publish a landmark report - Keep Australia Fishing - on the challenges facing the recreational fishing sector. Martin has made good his pre election promise to return and campaign for a better deal for both anglers and for the fisheries on which our sport depends. This new, part time post has been made possible following donations from the Angling Trades Association (ATA) and two individual benefactors who support the Angling Trust.
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  • NATIONAL FISHING MONTH – BETTER THAN EVER
    National Fishing Month (NFM) 2011 has been hailed as a resounding success with more than 300 events taking place across the country attracting over 15,000 participants of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and social profiles.