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Individual Membership

Individual supporters and life members provide essential financial support for our work. We can only take cases on behalf of Club, Fishery and Riparian members however, Fish Legal and Angling Trust have a joint membership for individual supporters. This means that as well as helping to fund Fish Legal’s vital activities you will also receive all the additional benefits of being a member of the Angling Trust.

Membership starts from just £30 a year with an optional concession rate of £26 for seniors aged 65 years and over.

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Club and Fishery Membership

Do you want to know that you will have someone to turn to if your waters were polluted or face other legal problems? Fish Legal membership is available to all Clubs, riparian and fishery owners in England via joint membership with the Angling Trust. Fish Legal membership means that we can provide expert legal advice, take action to stop pollution and other environmental damage to fisheries and make polluters pay.

Clubs and syndicates in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales where the Angling Trust is not the official representative body for angling, can opt for a Fish Legal only membership.

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Anglers successfully sue River Mole polluter and donate £18,000 settlement to restore the river

A company that polluted nearly 5km of the River Mole, the principal tributary of the River Taw, in Devon has paid £18,000 in damages to local angling clubs and fishery owners following a legal claim. In July 2019 liquid anaerobic digestate deposited by agricultural contractors AJ Sing and Sons Ltd…

Another Herefordshire River Suffers Bankside Damage by Landowner

Natural England has confirmed that they are investigating another potential case of unconsented damage of a highly protected river by a landowner in Herefordshire. In August this year, anglers witnessed and reported trees and bankside vegetation being removed by heavy machinery over hundreds of metres of the River Teme, a…

Cardiff High Court throws out NFU challenge to regulation to control agricultural pollution in Welsh rivers

Fish Legal welcomes the judgment in the High Court in Wales to throw out NFU’s legal challenge to new legislation intended to protect Welsh rivers like the River Wye. The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 came into force in April 2021 and replaced the regulations on…