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EVENTS Angling for Sustainability is coming to Lymington Join us for another Angling for Sustainability workshop, this time at Lymington and District Sea Fishing Club on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, from 6 pm to 8pm. This is your opportunity to get involved and learn about the exciting fish tracking work we've been doing along the south coast over the last two years in partnership with recreational anglers and charter skippers. Come learn more about where black bream, sharks, and rays go along our shores. Whether you’re an experienced angler or just passionate about the future of our seas, all are welcome to attend. 📅 When: Thursday, 23rd January 📍 Where: Lymington and District Sea Fishing Club For more information contact fishtracking@plymouth.ac.uk Sign up now for the Angling for Sustainability and Pollack FISP final conference Join us for the Angling for Sustainability and Pollack FISP final conference at the University of Plymouth on 12th February 2025. You can join us in-person (spaces limited) or online. We’ll be sharing the results of our exciting research, made possible through invaluable collaborations with recreational anglers. From black bream to sharks, rays, and pollack, our work on these recreationally important species has helped gather critical data that we hope will inform evidence-based fisheries management and protect these beloved species for the future. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to celebrate the power of community science in shaping sustainable fisheries. VIDEO WATCH: Angling for Sustainability - unlocking the secrets of our seas Sharks, rays, and black bream are important to our seas, support many fishing businesses and are top angling species, but we know surprisingly little about their lives. Where do they travel? What habitats do they use? And do they return to the same breeding grounds each year? Through the Angling for Sustainability project, we’ve embarked on a mission to track these remarkable species. By tagging individual fish with high-tech trackers, we’re uncovering critical insights into their movements, nesting behaviors, and long-distance travels. Led by the University of Plymouth, in partnership with the Professional Boatman's Association, Southern IFCA, Natural England and the Angling Trust, our work with recreational anglers and scientists is shining a light on the connectivity between important habitats and helping inform sustainable fisheries. From cross-Channel journeys of black bream to tope swimming all the way to France, the results are fascinating. Learn more in our new video and stay tuned for exciting updates as we continue to track these incredible fish and work together toward preserving our seas for future generations FISHERIES MANAGEMENT Have your say on wrasse and bream fisheries The Marine Management Organisation is hosting a series of workshops to hear from anglers like YOU about bream and wrasse fisheries and their importance. Don’t miss the chance to have your voice heard! Workshop Dates & Locations: Monday, 27 Jan 2025: 🕠 Plymouth (17:30-20:00) – Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth Tuesday, 28 Jan 2025: 🕠 Falmouth (17:30-20:00) – Chainlocker Pub, Falmouth, Cornwall Thursday, 30 Jan 2025: 🕠 Weymouth (17:30-20:30) – Ship Inn Pub, Weymouth, Dorset Your input matters – come along and share your thoughts! ANGLERS AGAINST LITTER Free litter picking kits and recycling bins for sea angling clubs The Angling Trust is excited to offer free litter picking kits and Anglers National Line Recycling Scheme (ANLRS) bins to sea angling clubs as part of our Anglers Against Litter – Reeling in Change project, funded by the Marine Management Organisation's Fisheries and Seafood Scheme. This initiative is designed to support our Anglers Against Litter campaign, sponsored by Shimano and supported by The Insurance Emporium, helping even more anglers join the effort to keep our coastal areas clean and beautiful. If you're part of a sea angling club and are willing to commit to at least two litter picks per year, all you need to do is: Apply for one of these amazing kits. Share your litter-picking photos with us. Litter kits include Anglers Against Litter High Viz vests and litter pickers made from recycled fishing nets. The ANLRS network, set up by anglers for anglers, offers a fantastic way to collect and recycle old line to stop it going to landfill. Interested? Send us an email with your club details to aal@anglingtrust.net Call for sea anglers in the South East to get involved in innovative pilot Another exciting aspect of our Anglers Against Litter – Reeling in Change project, is the Angling Trust are working with the Reduce Reuse Aquatic Plastic (ReAP) in the South East of England to collect aquatic plastic collected by sea anglers during litter picks. Do you have a litter pick event planned in the next few months? We want to collect from you! A lot of plastic collected by volunteer groups are fouled and thus many rubbish collectors send this to landfill or to be incinerated. We want to showcase that there are better ways to tackle aquatic plastic, with the opportunity for all aquatic plastic to be recycled and turned into new products. Interested? Then please get in contact with our aal@anglingtrust.net email to find out more. MEDIA REPORT Thresher shark in Cornwall - our view You may have seen some recent media stories about a dead thresher shark washing up on the beach near St Austell in Cornwall. There has been very little recreational shark angling in the region throughout December, and the injury the shark had would be extremely difficult for an autopsy to attribute directly to sport fishing as has been stated and reported. The Angling Trust therefore believes it is unlikely that its death was caused by recreational angling, as is being reported. No shark anglers want to see a sight like this, which is why the recreational shark fishing community in the UK has some of the strongest best practice guidance in place. Here's some key things to remember if you catch a thresher: Don’t bring them onboard. Revive them before release - tow the fish alongside the boat to help water flow over their gills. Use the right tackle: circle hooks, heavy line, and appropriate traces. Minimise fight time. Pull in gear if you see a thresher when trolling for tuna to avoid bycatch. Check out Shark Hub UK for more information on best practice handling and to read more about how scientists and anglers are working together to learn more about sharks in the UK to inform their conservation. AWARDS Angling Trust's own shortlisted for Ocean & Coastal Futures Bob Earll Award Hannah Rudd, Marine Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Angling Trust, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Bob Earll Award, which recognises young professionals making a significant impact for marine and coastal communities. As a passionate marine scientist, environmental advocate and young angler, Hannah is celebrated for her work in promoting sustainable fishing practices and fostering collaboration between anglers and scientists. Part of her shortlisting is in recognition of her dedication to marine conservation and her efforts to ensure recreational sea angling is represented in policy decisions. Hannah's nomination highlights the growing recognition of recreational anglers in marine policy, especially in promoting diversity and inclusion in the sector. The award winner will be announced later this month. VIDEO WATCH: Day in the life of a young angler Some people are just naturally drawn to our sport and all that it offers. Lydia Thomas is one of those people. She's just 16 but is already an accomplished multi-disciplined angler. Follow Lydia, from sunrise to sunset on an angling adventure that takes her from river fly fishing to lure fishing at sea. SOCIAL MEDIA Keep up-to-date with the latest sea fishing news - join the Angling Trust Sea Angling Facebook Group Stay up-to-date with all the latest sea angling news and join the conversation - become a member of the Angling Trust Sea Angling Facebook Group today! TRADE PARTNERS The Angling Trust's work is supported by our Trade Associates Click on a logo to visit our Trade Associate partner's website

Great trip well done guys

Most likely Tuesday based on current forecasts

I'm planning to take Tigerfish over Charlie.

Loobie IV - Jerry, J2, Stuie

Weather permitting and it looks ok on the current forecast there will be a Flounder comp on the 14th and 15th December. Usual rules put your name down. Before the comp starts say which day you are fishing.

The website is randomly reporting 403 errors. Mark is onto this, it's not a bug in the new code, it's some sort of faulty interaction between Invision and Freeola, he is working the issue with freeola support (mainly they work during the working week). A get round that sometimes works is using the back button and keeping on refreshing, we know it is annoying.

The club records list is missing https://pbsbac.co.uk/club-records/ This now fixed

The site is live now, there may well be some lurking problems in spite of the best efforts that have been made. Please report any problems you find (even if you are not sure) on this thread that way others can know about them. When they are are fixes they will be reported on this thread also. Some content members have input may have been lost during the switchover on Friday, if that happened to your content then please enter it again, eg a catch report gone missing. For the techys only: browsers do cache content including code, when a site changes problems can occur due to the browser caching code/content that is the old version, this can look like bugs but actually self resolve over time, or can be fixed by flushing the cache or using a different browser. If you find a problem you can try this

All being well the PBSBAC website will be switched to a new server on the evening of the 3rd December. The appearance of the website and forum will be substantially the same so no big learning curve. There has been a great deal of work behind the scenes modifying the code by Mark and Tanya so that it will run on a modern specification commercial server. Since Oli took over maintenance of the website many years ago, it has been run on a private server kindly hosted by Oli's company and maintained by Oli, that's been a lot of work over many years. The server however is now old and cost money every month to run so a switch was required, meantime software system have moved on so a major update to the code was required, that's now completed. We have been testing the new website, however, as is the way with software there may be some problems lurking which we have missed. Please report on this thread any possible issues you find once you see the notification that the website has switched, all being well that will be from the 4th Dec There are some new features which will be detailed in a later post once it's live.

Steve, mate, so sorry, devastating. At least you both got out alive, everything else is a setback that can be overcome with time and effort. Steve

Well done lads, I haven't pulled an all nigher to some years... remember to put them on the September catches list

Bluefin tuna are here: the fishery is open! Bluefin tuna are here and the first weekend in August saw the opening of the recreational catch and release fishery. Ninety-one boats and skippers, across charter boats and private vessels, have been given permits to fish for bluefin in the English fishery. There's also a small number of charter vessels in Wales, while Scotland and Northern Island are still operating a small scientific research programme. Anglers can now book a place on one of the charter boats with a permit and go fishing for these mighty fish. Grant Jones, Sea Angling Campaigns Manager for the Angling Trust, headed out to sea on the opening day of the season. “The opening of a recreational fishery is going to give a lot more people the chance to enjoy what is arguably the world’s best bluefin tuna sport,” said Grant. “Having personally only caught bluefin in the ‘stand-up’ position previously, we spent the day bringing tuna to the side of the boat using gunnel and chair fighting to show just how accessible to all this fishery will be. “The overall experience, surrounded by an abundance of nature which included sunfish, free swimming blue shark, dolphins, whales, gannets, many other seabirds and of course immense shoals of baitfish and ‘busting’ tuna is like being transported to far off tropical climates, before the reality sets in that this is right on our doorstep! “I hope as many people get to enjoy this thrilling experience this year as possible and that everyone works collectively to deliver the highest possible welfare standards to protect this fishery for years to come.” The opening of the catch and release fishery is a huge landmark in a journey that began in 2018 with the launch of a campaign group, Bluefin Tuna UK (later the UK Bluefin Tuna Association (UKBFTA)), who joined forces with the Angling Trust to establish a scientific research programme to help inform the future management options for this iconic fish. Joined by the Professional Boatman’s Association (PBA) in 2020, the recreational sea angling sector went on to win, co-design and deliver the English CatcH And Release Tagging program, (CHART) that began in 2021. CHART represented an unprecedented collaboration between skippers, anglers, scientists and Government agencies. It delivered over 3,200 tagged and released fish, gathered huge volumes of important data, achieved incredibly low mortality rates, and generated millions in revenue for hard pressed coastal communities. This success led directly to the introduction of a Catch and Release Recreational Fishery (CRRF) in England and Wales this year. Martin Salter, Head of Policy at the Angling Trust, said: “Following years of efforts to secure acknowledgement and equitable treatment for the recreational sector, the ‘wins’ that brought us here show the huge strides forward that were made to deliver a bluefin fishery and give anglers the chance to experience some of the most exciting game fishing in our home waters.” The CRRF is a ‘lighter touch’ fishery as determined by DEFRA. It is its first year of operation and, in many ways, it is a learning year. There were some areas that as stakeholders we had differences of opinion with DEFRA regarding some aspects of this first year of operations, which we have been transparent about. Collaboration and co-design is a process that requires compromise on both sides, and whilst not perfect, this is a significant step forward. But it is only the first step in a process that should see the CRRF evolve and grow in the coming years. We, along with our partners, UKBFTA and the PBA, will continue to push DEFRA and the MMO to learn lessons, expand the fishery, and deliver an even greater experience for anglers, while maintaining the highest welfare standards. Stuart Singleton-White, Head of Campaigns at the Angling Trust, said: “This is an exciting time for sea angling. The chance for us to experience some of the best game angling in the world and no need to travel thousands of miles to do so - it’s on our doorstep. “Of course, it's year one, we’ve still got things to learn. We will continue to push DEFRA and the MMO to improve and expand this fishery in the years to come, but after over six years of hard graft to get us to today, let’s just go out and enjoy our fishing.” What marks this fishery out is the quality of the experience. This is not about a race to catch as many fish as possible in one trip or to maximise the number of hook ups at any one time, but to experience the power and majesty of these mighty fish and ensure they are released unharmed and able to swim away fit and ready for another day. Angler safety and fish welfare are at the heart of this fishery. To make sure the skills and experience gained by the charter skippers who took part in CHART are available to all permit holders, whatever their level of experience, a series of training and support material has been developed by stakeholders, led by UKBFTA working with some of the most experienced bluefin tuna skippers, crew and anglers in the UK. This training and support material includes: Free in person training days. Five days have been run for permit holders so far and we are hoping to run a further two in the coming weeks. Training and knowledge resources, covering everything from gear types to fish handling to angler safety via the UKBFTA knowledge bank: Click here Training “how to” videos supporting the published training materials will be launched in coming days. These will be available here A Code of Conduct, giving guidance and advice for permitted anglers to conduct legal, safe, professional levels of recreational angling, whilst contributing to the future management of Atlantic bluefin tuna thereby ensuring these iconic species have a sustainable future. Click here Now the season is open, and will be until the end of the year, all that remains is for permit holders to make the most of this incredible opportunity and show the rest of the world what an amazing recreational bluefin fishery we have here in the UK, and for anglers to book those trips on bluefin tuna charter boats to have the thrill of a lifetime. Some of the advice from the 2024 English Catch and Release Recreational Fishery Code of Conduct SOCIAL MEDIA

Persistence pays, a big well done to Dave and crew. Must feel so great to get a result after so many tries. Also good to hear some macks around 😀

Not me, I've been in China!

I'll be at the club BBQ on Saturday, we have a bit of a clash

I'm investigating, what we can do

Well done guys, you've done a top job there, that's a lot of work put in, she looks the business, a 20knot cruise will get you most places quick enough. Kodiak is going to be a more stable platform than JV! Not so sure about the tender...

Please post your photos taken in May in this list, the one with the most likes is the winner

Nice work Rob, the transducer mount is spot on