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Home News About Membership S&TA Store Issues & Conservation Events Branches Scotland Learning to Fish Becoming a Coach Where to Fish Links Contact Sitemap	Welcome to the Salmon & Trout Association The Salmon & Trout Association (S&TA) represents the interests of the UK’s game anglers, fishery owners/managers and affiliated trades, in all issues relevant to angling and fisheries legislation, regulation, management and conservation. We have close working relationships with Government departments and agencies, advising them over fisheries and angling matters and influencing their decision-making processes on behalf of our membership and, indeed, all those with an interest in the aquatic environment. read more Water S&TA represents angling and fisheries interests on Defra stakeholders’ groups concerned with the Water Framework Directive and delivery of Catchment Sensitive Farming read more Fly Life Monitoring is essential to gauge the success of aquatic management, and the Association sees fly life as central to this process. read more Sheep Dips Cypermethrin sheep dips are toxic insecticides designed to kill parasites, but in concentrations as low as 1 part per billion, they cause devastation to aquatic invertebrate populations, and also damage the reproduction and juvenile life stages of salmonids. read more Access Other important issues recently include the attempt by the British Canoe Union to gain legal access to all waterways in the UK. S&TA continues to lobby hard for voluntary joint access agreements for water users, rather than a blanket right for any one sport to run roughshod over riparian rights – a view for which the Government has since confirmed its strong support. read more Salmon, trout, Sea Trout and Grayling Management We advise and influence both nationally and internationally over the management of all our game fish species, with issues as diverse as the implementation of the EA’s Trout and Grayling Strategy and the closure of the Irish Republic’s drift net salmon fishery, read more Education Education is a priority within S&TA, highlighted by the publication of the Brown Trout Big Book this year, which was distributed to 11,000 primary schools throughout England, introducing them to the aquatic environment through the life cycle of the brown trout. read more   Recent News Salmon & Trout Association gains charitable status Read more .... New unified organisation for angling and fisheries! Read more .... FACT Media Release - Angling Unity Brown Trout Big Book launched in Scotland THE BROWN TROUT BIG BOOK – OPENING SCOTTISH CHILDREN’S EYES TO THE MAGIC OF LIFE UNDERWATER.Read more... National Fishing Week Dates Announced ‘All encompassing’ is the theme behind this year’s National Fishing Week. Read more... Salmon & Trout Association's response to the Trout and Grayling Strategy Review We have spoken on several occasions about the Trout & Grayling Strategy, and how it might be implemented so that wild trout stocks are protected and enhanced in England and Wales. Read more... Angling Unity Potential new organisation to represent all anglers and fisheries interests in England. Read more... Allow our salmon to come home Read more about our initiative to facilitate the buy-out or lease of Scotland's remaining mixed stock netting stations and SIGN OUR PETITION.... Blueprint for Water A once-in-a-generation opportunity to give the water of England and Wales a future! More...
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