THE BIG PLAN...
THE National Angling Strategy Partnership Board’s six objectives to improving angling participation between 2019 and 2024:
Develop Awareness and
1
Knowledge of Angling
Angling needs to be visible, attractive, exciting and affordable.
For angling to prosper, more people need to be aware of it, realise what they can get from it and how and where they can take part, in both sea and freshwater.
Increase Participation in Angling 2
Make it simple to recruit, retain and re-engage anglers.
Angling needs to reverse declines in participation and grow its numbers to deliver more benefits to society and angling. It must recruit new people and broaden its appeal, retain anglers, increase their participation and reengage those who take part.
Develop social benefits
3
through angling
Make people more active, healthier, happier and engaged in nature and communities through angling.
Angling will be used as a tool for social development by getting more people active, increasing their health and well-being, developing education and skills and increasing volunteering.
Develop Sustainable 4
Places to Fish Develop fisheries that are local, environmentally healthy and accessible.
Anglers must be more involved in creating healthy, sustainable fishery environments that are close to where people live and are accessible to all. Government and its agencies need to work with partners to tackle environmental problems and improve sea and freshwater fish stocks.
Increase Angling’s
5
Economic Impact
Anglers will deliver a greater economic impact, be more financially sustainable and deliver additional value to the UK economy, rural and coastal communities.
There needs to be investment supporting long-term growth in the angling sector to support the development of the market, increase income for angling businesses to enable more sustainable development, and boost angling tourism in rural and coastal areas.
Understand angling data and 6
evidence
Use data to ensure angling’s development is informed, accurate and measurable.
There needs to be better evidence and data to inform angling’s growth, including better knowledge about non-anglers, the impact it makes and what works in angling development.