Carrying on from the other thread...
LT, I've been reading all the stuff from the ACA since the start of the year about the single body. Having had extensive dealings with both the NFA and the ACA, plus involvement with the NFA coaching scheme and other coaches throughout all angling disciplines, it still leaves me saying: "how can one body represent all anglers if all anglers are not represented?"
The game anglers can't even decide amongst themselves who is their number one body and they are much better organised than coarse anglers.
The ACA and the NFA if you put their membership figures together only account for something like 10,000 maximum out of 800,000 annual rod licences sold.
Now I would love a strong unified body representing all anglers; it would be a fantastic force for the countryside, our natural habitat and anglers. But something like 75% of all anglers are not in the slightest interested.
We cannot agree on our best long term interests because they will end fishing for some and, quite frankly, the anglers who will get the best of any deal will be game anglers. Plus ca change!
Assuming it does happen, I would like to see Mark Lloyd head up a unified body. Having had several meetings and worked with him recently, I feel he has an excellent angling head on his shoulders, as well as being a very intelligent bloke and well informed by the people he has around him.
Sadly, I expect he would be too self-deprecating and would be passed over in favour of someone like Paul Baggaley who, in my experience, is a business man and not an angler, presiding over a body that tends to jump off cliffs with its foot in its mouth (to mix several metaphors).
I bet at least 50% of anglers in this country have never even heard of either the ACA or the NFA. How can either of them, or a unified body comprising mainly them, represent all anglers?
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