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Polish anglers pledge to tow the British line

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Nick Hodge 30.01.2013 11:03
The Polish Anglers' Association in the UK has offered to translate the rules of any angling club in Britain amid ongoing negative press that Poles are flaunting accepted practices.

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Radoslaw Papieski, a co-founder of the recently established Polish Anglers' Association and a part-time employee of England's Angling Trust, hopes that the efforts will help to allay problems such as poaching.

“We believe that the main cause of poaching is a lack of understanding of angling culture in England and therefore we were keen to do as much as possible to encourage anglers from immigrant communities to become involved in clubs and mainstream events so that they become bound by their rules and culture,” Papieski has stressed on the Angling Trust's official web site.

According to the Angling Trust, Central and Eastern European immigrants have carried out multiple angling offences in UK rivers, canals and lakes.

“Night lines with multiple hooks, nets and even poison have been used throughout the country to capture fish for consumption and sale,” the trust claims.

The issue is widely commented on during the Christmas season, with carp a staple dish of the Polish yuletide table.

“Migrant workers, who come from cultures where coarse fish are regularly taken to eat, have taken huge quantities of fish (many of them large specimens) both legally and illegally in recent years,” the trust said.

The Angling Trust runs a multi-faceted project entitled 'Building Bridges with Migrant Anglers', and the initiative has received some funding from the UK's Environment Agency. (nh)

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