campaigns

Minimum Flow Rates for rivers.

Over abstraction of water resources.

Protection of fish stocks from increased saline incursions in the broads.

EA river maintenance activities damaging to fisheries, such as in-channel weed -cutting, pruning of riparian trees and dredging, and their failings in balancing their various functions.

Fishery habitat destruction on well-known fisheries.

Protection for predatory species in EA byelaws.

EA stocking policies.

Fish deaths caused by the toxic algae Prymnesium.

Leaching into watercourses from winter roadside salt storage.

Cormorant predation.

Eutrophication of watercourses, phosphate pollution and phosphate stripping in sewage treatment works discharging into Norfolk rivers.

Declining fish stocks, especially roach, in upper rivers, the reasons for it and prescription for rehabilitation.

Rights of access for angling on tidal waters.

Countering the activities of anti-anglers attempting to persuade the Norwich City Council to ban angling on public fisheries.

Promoting angling and junior participation by our own efforts and hosting NFA roadshows.

Forcing Broads Authority action on generating a strategy for angling for the Norfolk Broads.

Support for the campaigns to maintain the close season on river fisheries.

Promoting conservation minded angling and fish handling practices.

The environmental and water resource implications of the Norfolk Structure Plan.

NACA have taken on a wide range of issues and campaigns since its formation, involving writing letters to official organisations and Government departments, MPs, MEPs and councillors, raising objections to plans or consents, attending and arranging meetings, commenting on policy documents, telephone calls, press releases, organising actions in the field and fact finding events. Many stemmed from concerns in areas specific to Norfolk, such as the decline of the fisheries of our upper rivers, water resource usage and its impact on fisheries in what is the driest region of the country, and the Norfolk Broads. We have had varying degrees of success, some uncertain or unresolved results and success in pushing some issues onto the agendas of others. Increasingly we have realised that the solution to local problems lies in regional or national forums and requires coordinated action among the angling community at regional or national level. This and our growth in stature and influence have generated an escalating consultative role and the need for increasingly sophisticated structure and organisation among active members.

Listed below are examples of our past and present activities.

The Environment Agency's Anglian Region Fisheries Consultative Forum.

EA Fishery Action Plans Pilot Project.

Local Environment Agency Plans (LEAPs)

EA Area Environment Groups.

EA Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies.

EA and BTO Cormorant predation research in Norfolk.

The Salmon an Freshwater Fisheries Review Group.

The Joint Advisory Panel of the Wensum Valley Project, a body set up to advise on managing the River Wensum SSSI.

Broads Authority Consultative Committee.

Broads Angling Strategy Steering Group.

Upper Thurne Working Group

Norwich City Council's Environment Forum.

Norwich City Council's Lost and Discarded Fishing Tackle Working Party.

Norwich River Valleys Strategy.

Tidy Britain Group/Anglian Water Norwich River Care Project.

Specialist Anglers Conservation Group committee.

National Association of Fishery and Angling Consultatives.

Moran Committee.

BTCV.

Advice to our member clubs and associations.

Slide shows on river habitat degredation and rehabilitation to a variety of groups including Wildlife Trusts and angling clubs.

Waveney Valley Rehabilitation Project.

Wensum Rehabilitation Strategy.

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