World Sea Fishing's website has ranked Number 1 in the Sports - Fishing online industry based on the market share of UK visits it has received between January and June 2011.

The Hitwise UK Top 10 Awards Programme celebrates the most successful UK websites in 160+ online industries. As Hitwise reports on the anonymous online usage and search behaviour of more than 8.43 million UK Internet users—the largest online sample of its kind—this unique awards programme recognises excellence in online performance through public popularity.

World Sea Fishing is an online Magazine, Community and Retail operation based in North Wales. World Sea Fishing was one of the first UK based online magazines established in 1998 and expanded into early forms of “Social Networking” through its interactive forums in 2002.

World Sea Fishing now operates one of the largest databases of sea angling articles in the country and runs one of the most popular sea angling specific forums in the UK with over 56,000 members who have posted over 3.6 million posts.

World Sea Fishing Ltd Managing Director, Mike Thrussell Jnr said, “It is absolutely fantastic that once again we have managed to win the Experian Hitwise No 1 Award. The people that we really need to thank are our fantastic readers, members and customers who are continually out on the beaches spreading the word and encouraging more people to visit and join WSF. A huge thank you also has to go to everybody involved with World Sea Fishing from our fantastic team of moderators, top class editorial contributors and the technical team behind the scenes.”

“We started in 1998 as one of the first online angling magazines and we have progressed a lot since then. It really is amazing just how much the site has grown and how many people use and rely on WSF for their sea angling information. Winning this award again can only encourage the whole of the WSF Team to work harder and produce an even better magazine, community and retail experience for our visitors.”

“2011 is once again set to be a bumper year for World Sea Fishing. Visitor numbers are up 20% and we expect to reach our goal of 60,000 members before 2012. We have some very exciting plans for 2012 on both the editorial/social side of the business as well as the retail side of the business.”  Mike Thrussell Jnr said.

ABOUT WORLD SEA FISHING
World Sea Fishing, established in 1998, is the largest, full-featured sea angling web site in the UK, servicing the needs of content consumers and retailer customers in the UK’s multi-million pound sports fishing industry.

World Sea Fishing, as one of the leading angling sites in the country offers the following online services:

Online Magazine
Established in 1998 under the title of Sea All The Angles, World Sea Fishing now runs one of the largest sea angling content and blogging web sites in the UK. With over 1,000 articles published, it is one of the largest resources for angling related information in the world. Articles range from How To Guides, Reviews, Full Features and Blogs written by our team of writers.

Community for Anglers
Established in 2002, World Sea Fishing offers online visitors the largest online sea angling forums in the UK. With over 56,000 members and more than 3.6 million posts, World Sea Fishing is one of the largest angler contributed resources in Europe. The WSF Forums contain a wide variety of forums covering all topics in sea angling, ranging from Tackle to Species to Regional angling report forums. Our forums also feature a very popular and busy classified advert section.

The WSF Tackle Shop
Established in 2007, World Sea Fishing now features an ever growing online retail shop called WSF Tackle (www.wsftackle.com). WSF Tackle stocks a wide range of tackle from some of the most famous brands in the world.

WEB SITE STATISTICS
World Sea Fishing serves over 6 million page impressions and over 540,000 visitors per month.

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