Our Committees

The Environment and Technical (E&T) Committee

The E&T Committee advises the Board, Chairman and Chief Executive over environmental issues involving the management and conservation of fish, aquatic habitats and ecology.

The Chairman, Dennis Mitchell CBE, has been chair since its inception in 2002. A former chairman of the Water Authorities’ Fisheries Committee, a board member of the National Rivers Authority (NRA) Committee and chairman of the NRA Fisheries Committee.

Supported by:

James Carr; S&TA Chairman

Peter Hayes; of the Wiltshire Fisheries Association

David Moore; Angling Development Board and former Fisheries Manager of Anglian Water,

Jim Latham- member of the Confederation of English Fly Fishes

Dr Graeme Harris; Chairman of RFEFAC of Wales

Jeremy Read- former director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust

Arlin Rickard- director of the Association of Rivers Trusts.

Prof. Lynda Warren; chairman of the Fisheries Legislative Review Group.

Chris Rothwell- vice-chairman of the E&T Committee, and a former chairman of RFERAC of the south west.

The Water Resources Sub-Committee

The Water Resources Sub-Committee works with Janina Gray, S&TA Research and Policy Manager, to respond to water related consultations documents, briefing and position papers.

The Chairman is Peter Smith, BSc CEng FICE FConsE, a Consulting Engineer with over 40 years experience at home and abroad in all forms of water, sewage and flood control engineering.

Supported by Neil Osborne; Chris Klee; Ivor Llwewlyn and Mark Lloyd (Anglers’ Conservation Association - ACA);

Supporting Branch Water Resource Officers and Flylife Surveys

S&TA are also members of:

Moran Committee

Chaired by Lord Moran, past Chairman of the Salmon & Trout Association, the Moran Committee is the united voice for all the main fisheries and angling organisations in England and Wales over the Review of fisheries legislation.

When the Labour Party came to power in 1997, they ordered a complete review of all fisheries legislation. A review committee was formed, under the Chairmanship of Linda Warren, and S&TA’s then Chairman, Lord Moran, and staff determined that we would closely monitor the work of the Warren Committee and feed as much information into it as possible. Other leading angling and fisheries bodies, thirteen in all, were invited to form an advisory and monitoring group to shadow the legislative review, and this became known as the Moran Committee.

The Moran Committee produced consensus written and oral evidence at every stage of the review process. The importance of its work transpired when the Government published its response to the review, for they mentioned just two fisheries bodies in that document; the Environment Agency (EA) and the Moran Committee. Almost everything the Moran Committee lobbied for has either been addressed under secondary legislation, or is contained in the Marine Bill. The Committee continues to apply influence to the Government to ensure that the Bill is finally enacted onto the statute books.

Almost everything the Moran Committee lobbied for has either been addressed under secondary legislation, or is contained in the Marine Bill. The Committee continues to apply influence to the Government to ensure that the Bill is finally enacted onto the statute books.

Moran Committee Members: Anglers’ Conservation Association, Angling Trades Association, Association of Stillwater Game Fishery Managers, Atlantic Salmon Trust, Commercial Coarse Fisheries Association, Institute of Fisheries management, National Association of Angling and Fisheries Consultatives, National Federation of Anglers, National Federation of Sea Anglers, Salmon & Trout Association, Specialist Anglers’ Alliance, Welsh Federation of Coarse Anglers Ltd, Welsh Salmon and Trout Association.