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A new type of club for a new breed of wildfowler
The proposed East of Scotland Association for Wildfowling and Conservation is being launched to provide a new type of club for wildfowlers who shoot on the foreshores and coastal marshes of south-east and east-central Scotland. It will cover the coastal areas of the counties of Angus, Perth and Kinross, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, the Lothians and Berwickshire.
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you are a wildfowler and..
The club will seek affiliation to the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). If you are already a member of BASC or of any other BASC-affiliated club or syndicate, you will be able to reclaim any duplicate BASC subscriptions paid.
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Briefly, why a new type of club?
Traditionally in Scotland wildfowlers have felt secure that their "free shooting" in the foreshore was safe. Against that background, existing wildfowling clubs tend to be fairly small and often cover only a single estuary or, in some cases, just a small part of an estuary. With very few exceptions, those clubs have never sought to lease foreshore areas or purchase coastal marshes - quite simply because, under the existing legal framework, there was little to be gained by doing so.
However, if Scotland is pressed to re-examine its obligations under the EU Habitats Directive that could all change radically and, indeed, at some stage fundamental changes to the legal framework might be required to allow the Directive to be implemented differently in relation to SSSIs and Natura 2000 sites on the coast.
We can readily see the dramatic effects of this EU Directive and its implementation by Natural England and the Countryside Commission for Wales. Clubs south of the border have had to meet those challenges, and the best of them have done so very successfully. When the challenges appear in Scotland, we will need wildfowling clubs of the size and with the resources of the best English and Welsh clubs. Click on the "About" button at the top of the page to find out more.
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| The threats to the traditions of wildfowling in Scotland are not imaginary. Only the timescale is uncertain. |
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| By the time those threats become clearer, it will be too late to take effective action to organise wildfowlers to meet the new challenges. The time to act is now. |
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The formation of this new type of club is intended to allow wildfowlers to create an organisation, at local level, that can be prepared for that uncertain future. This will demand clubs that have the membership, the resources and the resolve to fight for the future of wildfowling. |
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| If you really care about the
future of you sport and are prepared to work for it, then apply for
Founder Membership of the club today. Click on the "Applications"
button at the top of this page to obtain an application form and send
it off without delay.
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| Do not apply of you have a "take it or leave it" attitude to wildfowling. This club is for fowlers who care passionately about their sport - both for them and for future generations. |
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| See what some of the first members think. Click here. |
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| DO APPLY if you want to be part of a new type of wildfowling club designed to grow and meet the challenges of the future. |