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Invasive Species Week starts today! - 16/05/2023

Invasive Species including Flora and Fauna can and do have a hugely detrimental impact on our native ecosystems.   For us as anglers, unchecked they can cause immense damage to our marine and freshwater habitats and impact our native fish species … Read More >>

Coarse Fishing in Scotland – ‘The Legal Position – Part 2’ - 31/08/2020

This is the second in a series of articles, by  Policy Officer, Ron Woods, outlining the legal position with regard to coarse fish and coarse fishing in Scotland, rights of access to fish for them and legislation governing the movement … Read More >>

Coarse Fishing in Scotland – ‘The Legal Position – Part 1’ - 25/08/2020

Since Angling re-opened at the beginning of July, as part of the Scottish Government’s Routemap out of the COVID-19 pandemic, literally hundreds of individuals have either returned to the sport, or indeed taken it up for the first time.   This … Read More >>

PIKE CONSERVATION – PROPOSED LEGAL MEASURES - 23/03/2020

Background Our sport can only prosper if healthy populations of Scottish coarse fish are maintained. Ideally we want to see all coarse fish thriving throughout the country. However in the short term our focus has been on pike, because the … Read More >>

Strathclyde Park Works Update - 08/01/2020

The recent partial draining of Strathclyde Park loch, which has seen the water level reduced to the lowest levels in recent memory, has seen a significant number of wholly understandable concerns over potential fish losses raised to the SFCA by … Read More >>