Top-level EU fisheries talks are taking place in Brussels today. Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw is hoping to overturn reduced quotas including a 25 per cent cut in the number of North Sea herring which can be landed.
The move would see the price of many pikers' staple deadbait rocket if he doesn't succeed.
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About the PAC
The Pike Anglers' Club of Great Britain was formed in 1977 as a direct result of changing attitudes toward pike. For far too long pike had been regarded by fishery owners and some anglers as vermin, to be killed and removed at all costs. Since it's inception, the PAC has done much to drastically change this mistaken attitude and pike are now widely regarded as a positive element in the natural balance of any fishery.
Pike fishing has without doubt become one of the most specialised branches of coarse fishing. Not least in the methods of handling, unhooking and safe return of the fish once caught.
The PAC works continually for the benefit of all pike and pike anglers, we seek only to further the opportunities for pike fishing, whilst preserving all that pike fishing is all about.
We strive to protect pike from persecution by those who do not understand, or choose to ignore, the facts about the important role the pike plays in the balance of nature. We also work to promote pike conservation through safe practice by anglers.
Pike fishing has without doubt become one of the most specialised branches of coarse fishing. Not least in the methods of handling, unhooking and safe return of the fish once caught.
The PAC works continually for the benefit of all pike and pike anglers, we seek only to further the opportunities for pike fishing, whilst preserving all that pike fishing is all about.
We strive to protect pike from persecution by those who do not understand, or choose to ignore, the facts about the important role the pike plays in the balance of nature. We also work to promote pike conservation through safe practice by anglers.
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- Tough times ahead, warns PAC president
- Rodders lined up for Lincoln talk
- Spoon lore from US lure buffs
- Weather brings no let up for New Year pikers
- A tall story from the BBC archives
- And you reckon it gets cold over here..?
- How they do it Stateside - food for thought..?
- New softbait material is 'stronger and safer'
- Stormy times ahead warn weathermen
- Herts and Chilterns Region up and running
- Feast of twenties on Ayrshire blog
- Eric joins the blogging set
- Question mark for pikers over minister's pledge
- Bill Dance on lure angling
- Broads boaters petition minister
- Don't go trying this at home
- Fen doyen Rodders heads west for talk
- Scottish livebait ban set to become reality
- SAA calls for trade to support fighting fund
- Win a boat entries are flooding in
- PAC AGM details being finalised
- Illegal eel nets seized and netter nabbed
- Forums sign up nearly 400
- Season's Greetings from the PAC
- January Pike and Predators preview
- Don't miss Scotty D in Lanarks in Feb
- Holyhead magistrates - a clarification
- Williams fined £800 for livebait smuggling
- Grass network being set up to spy on pikers
- What's that got to do with the price of fish..?
- ET lands in Sussex - Wednesday night
- Gerry Castles funeral set for January 2
- Regional blogs now number 13
- Don't forget our win a boat promotion
- Stop poaching or we'll cull pike, warning
- Ely/Fenland quiz night
- New blog for Teeside and Darlington
- Don't miss our Skee-Tex competition
- Fish thieves will face tougher fines, pledge
- Scottish pike fishing in crisis
- Scottish livebait ban clears another hurdle
- Surface lure and other action on Youtube
- Pike's popularity as food is "soaring".
- Stock bigger trout to cut pike predation
- Protect our pike fishing, says Lynn AA
- Ice fishing time over in the States
- Gravel pits again then this weekend lads?
- Fish for Gerry - friends organise memorial
- Blithfield - new dates announced
- Loch Awe fund raiser cancelled
- Goldfish dumped in Thames, court told
- Gerry Castles - a tribute
- Log cabin break is latest PAC raffle prize
- Sad news RE Gerry Castles
- Pike fly guys launch new website
- Watch the gravel pit pike hunt online
- Roll up, roll up - Mega Raffle prize list
- Raffle - we're snowed under already...
- PAC-backed schools scheme set to expand
- Venue change for ET talk in Sussex
- How to order extra membership leaflets
- Slide show season going well
- Reviews added to PAC Members Forums
- We don't need a pike cull - Barrie
- Fish theft warning posters in 11 languages
- New NFA guidance on fish theft
- PAC recruits at Carp Show
- Otter devastation on Suffolk gravel pits
- Plenty of trout to Chew on
- Flood warnings for the Severn and Wye
- Broads pikers warned after vandals strike
- Raffle tickets and membership forms on way
- Glossop meeting change tonight
- Gary Knowles in Stoke on Trent, Tuesday night
- PAC forums hit new milestone
- Chairman Colin drops in to Wakefield
- Scots launch Fish For Jordan appeal
- Rolling membership now in force
- Who was that masked man..?
- PAC forums going from strength to strength
- Fens club set for "crisis meeting"
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