The Angling Trust is the representative body for game, coarse and sea anglers in England.

Being a member adds support to the campaigns and legal actions they carry out to protect waters, fish stocks and our fishing. They have ongoing programmes to increase the number of anglers fishing for fun and in competitions.

They are fighting for the future of YOUR fishing, but need YOUR support to do more. If you want to protect your fish and fishing, for now and in future, join your representative body today.

As a branch of the Angling Trust, Fish Legal (formerly the Anglers Co-operative Association) is a unique, non-profit making organisation set up to use the law to fight pollution and other damage to both the freshwater and marine environment and to protect the rights of anglers and angling, often securing substantial compensation for damage caused to clubs and fisheries.

Fish Legal will act for fishing clubs, fishery owners, syndicates, commercial fisheries etc, who are members, across the whole of the UK.

When the Salmon & Trout Association was formed in 1903, the principal threat to freshwater and marine habitats came from industrial pollution.

The Association began to recruit members and took shape from the concept that, ‘It is necessary for sportsmen, scientists, experts in each branch of fishery care and administration to band themselves together to protect and nurture a natural heritage that civilisation dissipates.’

In 2008 the organisation changed it's name to Salmon & Trout Conservation UK and became a registered charity which has enabled it to specialise as a science based, campaign led, lobbying charity that campaigns for the conservation, protection and sustainable management of an aquatic environment capable of supporting an abundance of indigenous fish species, invertebrates, animals and plant life - from source to sea.