News

SACN has appointed John Hills as the SACN Regional Co-ordinator for the South-East. John's role will be to liase with SACN members in the South-East and to take the lead on regional and local issues that are likely to affect members, as well as ... [full story]

This week SACN's Leon Roskilly was asked to deliver a presentation to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Marine and Coast Issues on the Marine Bill Proposals. The meeting, attended by MPs and addressed by the Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw, took ... [full story]

Scottish anglers attend European conference and EU Parliamentary dinner Denis Kelly and Ian Burrett have just returned from Brussels where they attended a conference organized by the Shark Alliance - a coalition of more than forty conservation, fishing, diving, and ... [full story]

An Environment Agency Wales operation to catch illegal fishermen on the Loughor Estuary again proved successful as two Burry Port men were caught last Friday night (21 September). Environmental crime officers, assisted by South Wales Police, apprehended the men for ... [full story]

Over the past months the SOS in Scotland and SACN (Scotland) and the SFSA Conservation Team have worked together to address a number of marine conservation issues; this has greatly increased the political recognition of RSA in Scotland and allowed ... [full story]

SACN Co-ordinator Leon Roskilly has announced his intention to stand down from the SACN Executive Group by the end of 2008. In a proposal to transform the governance of SACN before then, by electing a committee to oversee the future running ... [full story]

Dave Morton, the SACN Regional Co-ordinator for the North-East has been offered a vacant seat which has arisen on the Northumberland Sea Fisheries Committee for an angling representative.  An invitation which he has accepted. A number of the SACN Executive Group members already sit ... [full story]

At a recent meeting of the Cornwall Sea Fisheries Committee (attended by six representatives from DEFRA down from London), a proposal that bag limits should be imposed on unlicensed fishermen was put forward and accepted. A background paper that the committee ... [full story]

MPA news is a monthly electronic publication distributed worldwide from Washington, USA. It deals with issues surrounding the establishment and maintenance of Marine Protected Areas and is read by many people involved in their establishment. The SACN article is a shortened version ... [full story]

Following a request from DEFRA on the Strategy for Recreational Sea Angling in England that is currently being drafted by DEFRA with support from a wide variety of stakeholders SACN, following consultation with the membership, have submitted a document containing many recommendations ... [full story]