Previously, it had been put into landfill sites or ploughed into farms. Maggot farms are saying that this is going to force a drastic increase in the price of maggots, used by fishermen as bait. Bedford Brand, one of the approximate 30 maggot farms in Britain has already cited it as a factor in their closure. Climate changes are bringing man eating mako sharks to the shores off Brighton. Not just a danger to swimmers, in Australia several years ago one of these sharks chewed the bow off a fishing boat and its crew of four narrowly escaped with their lives.
More good news is that another angling magazine has closed.
This is the second magazine this year to go, following Coarse Angling which is still in a state of suspension by its publishers. Thanks to PETA who organized a demonstration at it In Scotland, where the state of salmon stocks are no better with 1998 having record lows, the environment minister Lord Sewel has called on anglers to follow a similar practice. Jeremy Reid of the Atlantic Salmon Trust said the conservation measure was a matter for the individual angler's conscience rather than endorsing the call. Given that the general angler doesn't have much of a conservation conscience it shows that yet anglers are not safe for the ecosystem. The Environment Agency has told anglers that they must release all salmon caught before June 16th in order to conserve stocks on the English and Welsh rivers.