Martin Salter blog

BLOGGER PROFILE : Martin Salter
Martin Salter is a former UK MP who served as Parliamentary Spokesman for Angling under the Blair and Brown governments. A keen fisho, Salter recently enjoyed an 18 month sabbatical in Australia during which time he compiled the "Keep Australia Fishing" report which challenges many threats to rec fishing. He is currently back living in the UK and is Fishing World's Foreign Correspondent.


BLOG: African Addiction

Fisho's blogger Martin Salter discovers an array of angling gems in Kenya's Watamu Bay...

BLOG: Time to defend what we've won from the Feds

WHAT the recreational fishing sector has to do is prove that it can step up to the mark and make the case for properly managed fisheries with...

BLOG: Another broken promise at Broken Bay

Pic: Scott Thomas

ONCE upon a time there was this wonderful country called Australia with a huge pristine coastline and great fishing...

BLOG: Pew, Hugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

Pic: Luke Wyrsta

IS it because of Pew that relationships between recreational fishing and environmental groups, who ought to be largely on the same side, are so poor?

BLOG: What's the problem with your pollies?

AM I alone in thinking that the people of New South Wales who love recreational fishing are being poorly served by their politicians?

BLOG: Will smart phones become essential in fishing?

NEWS from the USA caught my eye the other day and got me thinking that it won't be long before smartphones are considered as essential by fishos as rods and reels...

BLOG: Cronulla decision highlights lack of common sense

LIKE many anglers I was delighted with the first few decisions of the new NSW Fisheries Minister Katrina Hodgkinson...

BLOG: Time to get real about fish conservation

Pic: Mick Fletoridis

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone" could easily be applied to recreational fishing in so many places on our planet, but particularly in Australia...

BLOG: My last hurrah - fishing WA!

INSTEAD of enjoying the relative obscurity of a fishing sabbatical Down Under, I found myself thrust into the limelight...