The government is determined to
ban trail hunting
Angling will be next
The same pressure groups pushing the trail hunting ban
are lining up a ban on angling
They want to destroy our way of life
Urban pressure groups don't understand the countryside. If they manage to ban trail hunting, they'll target the next rural activity, and the next after that. They don't care how their bans affect the people whose lives they displace.
We need to unite as a countryside community to stop them from chipping away at our way of life, one ban at a time.
Game anglers in Britain
From small chalk streams in Hampshire to Scottish salmon beats. People who travel out of cities and towns to spend a day on a river, passing the love of it down to the next generation.
Source: Environment Agency rod licence data, 2024.
Horses for hunting
Over 6,000 horses kept solely for hunting, plus more owned directly by hunts. Riders of every age and background, in every county, every winter.
Source: BHSA / Future For Hunting Facts & Figures, 2025.
Into the rural economy each year
Country hotels, riverside pubs, permits paid to farms, tackle shops, river keepers, ghillies, tweed and waxed cotton. Angling helps to keep small businesses going.
Source: Substance / Environment Agency, Economic Impact of Angling, 2023.
Into rural economies each year
Direct hunt spending on building repairs, transport, feed, tack, farriers, vets, fallen stock. £86m more spent maintaining hunting horses alone. The same small businesses will feel the pressure if the ban goes ahead.
Source: BHSA / Future For Hunting Facts & Figures, 2025.
Jobs in the angling sector
River keepers managing banks, monitoring fly hatches, controlling invasives. Ghillies, stockmen, tackle makers, guides. Angling created killed rural jobs.
Source: Substance, Social and Community Benefits of Angling, 2024.
Direct jobs with hunts
Huntsmen, kennel staff, terrier men, hunt secretaries — full-time rural workers whose skills aren't taught anywhere else. Take away the work and the trade disappears with it.
Source: BHSA / Future For Hunting Facts & Figures, 2025.
Wild salmon decline since 1970
Atlantic salmon are in trouble. The anglers who fish for them are also the people who fund the science, monitor the rivers, and lobby for cleaner water. Take angling away and the salmon loses its strongest advocate.
Source: ICES North Atlantic Salmon Stock Assessment, 2024.
A rural workforce, a rural lifeline
More than £400,000 raised for 120 local charities in a single year, and a social calendar that keeps village halls and pubs alive through winter. Trail hunting is rural community in motion.
Source: BHSA / Future For Hunting Facts & Figures, 2025.
If trail hunting falls
angling will be put at risk
