Saving Our Streams : The Role of the Anglers' Conservation Association in Protecting English and Welsh Rivers

Bate, Roger

ISBN 10: 0255364946 / ISBN 13: 9780255364942

Published by Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saving Our Streams : The Role of the Anglers' Conservation Association in Protecting English and Welsh Rivers
• Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0255364946
• ISBN 13: 9780255364942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.273 pounds

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Synopsis

In Saving Our Streams, Roger Bate explains the history of an unusual and remarkably effective 'environmental' organisation - the Anglers' Conservation Association (ACA). Founded in 1948, the ACA is a voluntary association of angling clubs and individual anglers which brings civil suits against polluters who harm fishing. Dr Bate's original and instructive history explores how the ACA, using the common law, has operated to indemnify its members against the cost of litigation, bringing thousands of actions and being awarded hundreds of injunctions and millions of pounds in damages for plaintiffs. Most cases end in out-of-court settlement which, though efficient, brings little public recognition to the ACA. The ACA has not sought the limelight, unlike other environmental groups, but, argues Dr Bate, it is the most efficient and determined pollution prevention body in Britain. Its success demonstrates the value of private initiatives against polluters.

About the Author

Roger Bate founded the Environment Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs in 1993 and co-founded the European Science and Environment Forum in 1994.