The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN) has been confirmed as a registered Scottish charity (No SC039015) by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

In making the announcement, SSACN's Secretary Denis Kelly said " The biodiversity and fish stocks in our inshore waters have never been in a worse position.

SSACN have planned a series of educational and practical programmes to highlight and help address some of the issues. Up to now we have been very resource constrained; attaining charitable status will open the door to a much wider range of alternative funding sources which should facilitate the development of our programmes."

Led by an experienced team and supported by several enthusiastic volunteers, SSACN is the first Scottish sea angling body to become a registered charity.

SSACN has campaigns to get the Scottish government to listen to the voice of sea anglers, a voice which for many years has been excluded, and to get them to accept recreational sea angling as a valid stakeholder in marine conservation.

Through SSACN, Scottish sea anglers are now actively involved at Local, National and European levels with other conservation organisations and Government departments, identifying the key issues facing inshore stocks and marine biodiversity and developing proposals to address them.

SSACN also develops and implements its own research activities as well as many public education and awareness initiatives.

SSACN is always looking for individuals who would like to join in any aspect of our development and thus help influence changes in Scottish, UK and EU conservation regulations.

To find out more about the work SSACN undertakes, or make any form of contribution to aid or support SSACN, visit www.ssacn.org or email - contact@ssacn.org

About SSACN ::

SSACN, the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network was formed in July 2007 by combining the efforts of the conservation teams of the Scottish Federation of Sea Anglers (SFSA), Save our Sharks (SOS) in Scotland and the Sea Anglers Conservation Network (Scotland).