The Wiltshire Fishery Association (WFA) seeks to safeguard and promote the interests of its members be they fishery owners, lessees or individual anglers on the Salisbury Avon and its tributaries upstream of the junction with the River Ebble. We represent the interests of riparian owners, fishery managers and keepers, club and syndicate tenants, and an increasing number of individual anglers. All of these come together to support our work, knowing that the future of these wonderful waters cannot be taken for granted, and that the fishing we all value so highly could all too easily decline unless an organisation existed to ensure by every possible means that this does not happen. We provide an effective and respected voice for our members, and indeed for all who love these rivers, but the more members we have, the greater our ability to ensure that the very real threats that exist are kept at bay.

In doing this, the Association will act as a co-ordinating body, a disseminator of information, a focal point for consultation by DEFRA and the appointed Agencies, together with an information and advice source for local anglers.

The WFA will cooperate with societies and bodies having similar objectives, especially the WildFish Smart Rivers programme. Additionally it may from time to time provide donations to protect fisheries or to facilitate research.

The WFA welcomes the designations of SSSI and SAC which now apply to the rivers of the Salisbury Avon catchment with the exception of the Ebble and will work closely with DEFRA, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Wessex Rivers Trust and the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust to place these rivers in favourable condition and so maintain them, thereby safeguarding globally rare chalk river habitats that support the now endangered Atlantic salmon, wild brown trout and grayling.