What steps is the Welsh Government taking to promote angling in Wales?
Angling on Wales’ rivers, seas, lakes and ponds provides important economic benefit to rural and coastal communities as well as being a healthy activity undertaken by many individuals across Wales.
Angling, at sea and on our rivers, requires healthy populations of fish as well as healthy riverine and marine environments. The Welsh Government is committed to delivering clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse seas around Wales.
Welsh Government provides grant funding to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to undertake its statutory duties including, in relation to fisheries, to “maintain, improve and develop” fisheries of salmon, trout, eels, lampreys, smelt and freshwater fish. This is in addition to over £1 million p.a. raised by NRW through rod licence sales.