Site Updated 1st July 2008 July 2008

Working to promote and protect recreational sea angling. 

to the NFSA website which is maintained as a service to all those who have an interest in recreational sea angling (RSA) one of the largest participation sports in the UK.  There are at least a million sea anglers of all ages, gender and ability, who fish from beaches, harbours, piers, and from boats both close to shore and offshore over wrecks where marine life thrives. Recreational sea anglers spend £1 billion a year on their sport.

The NFSA has convinced the government that sea angling today makes a substantial economic and social contribution to the national economy and that it could be very much greater in the future. As a result the NFSA has become, and will continue to be, a major influence on new government policies to benefit sea angling.  It was NFSA which persuaded the government that sea anglers as well as representatives of the commercial sector of the fishing industry, should be appointed to the sea fisheries committees. That was a very big step in making sure that fishery managers will now take account of the needs of recreational sea anglers as well as the commercial side of the industry.

The NFSA directly represents more than 30,000 sea anglers. It works closely with more than 300 angling clubs with other specialist sea angling organisations such as BASS (Bass Anglers' Sportfishing Society) and SACN (Sea Anglers Conservation Network) to make sure new government policies for RSA will be actioned and not shelved due to commercial pressure.

It is through the NFSA that the government is listening to the voice of sea anglers, a voice unheeded for many years. Sea angling needs you to join that voice. By doing so you can help influence changes in UK and EU regulations to promote and develop the sport to benefit the economies of communities all around our coasts.

Please visit our membership section by clicking on the link at the left of this page, where you will find the many benefits of joining sea anglers who care about their sport, who want to see it grow and the fish stocks, on which commercial fishermen and sea anglers alike rely, restored and protected in future from the ravages of the past.

Explore the website and see how by joining the NFSA, you can become a part of the efforts to ensure that our fishing experience is made better now and in the future.