First strain of wild carp to be conserved
4 February 2021 The Wild Carp Trust has been granted permission by the owners of Pant y Llyn in Wales to remove eggs and fry and enter them into a new conservation programme. The Kidston family, who have owned Pant y Llyn and the surrounding Glanwye Estate for hundreds of years, is delighted that the […]
Wild Carp Trust secures licence to use historic carp art
6 January 2021 The Wild Carp Trust has secured a royalty-free licence to use historic art from a 1913 book. The picture, entitled ‘Karpfen’ was painted by Heinrich Harder (a German artist and art professor at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin) and was featured in Emil Walter’s book “Unsere Süßwasserfische” (“Our Freshwater Fish”). It […]
True wild carp vulnerable to extinction
1 January 2021 The International Union for Conservation (ICUN) has categorised the true wild carp as vulnerable to extinction. The report, published in 2015 but based on data from 2008, classes the wild common carp as a species that will reduce in population by 50% or more in the coming 10 years. Established in 1964, […]
Wild carp article in Fallon’s Angler magazine
15 December 2020 Wild Carp Trust supporter David West Beale has an article in the current edition of Fallon’s Angler. The article, which appears in Issue 20 of the magazine, is entitled ‘Pilgrim’ and describes David’s almost religious experience fishing for wild carp in the mountains of Wales. In it he ventures to regular Wild […]
Wild Carp Trust sets its conservation strategy
2 December 2020 Following extensive consultation with The Environment Agency, The Institute of Fisheries Management, and several eminent fishery management consultants (including Wild Carp Trust Vice-President Dr Bruno Broughton), the Wild Carp Trust has decided upon its conservation strategy. The Wild Carp Trust will, in parallel to helping fish in the wild (through habitat improvement […]
Wild Carp Trust Facebook Group exceeds 500 members
1 December 2020 Launched in 2013, when Matt Tanner, Stu Harris and Fennel Hudson first had the idea of forming an organisation to conserve and celebrate our oldest strains of carp, the Wild Carp Trust’s Facebook Group has grown steadily with members from across the UK, Europe and the United States. What began as a […]
British Game Alliance promotes the Wild Carp Trust
4 November 2020 Following the success of the recent podcasts with our chair of trustees, The British Game Alliance has featured the Trust in its member newsletter. They ask for landowners and estate managers to come forward if they know of any waters containing old strains of carp, or have waters that could be used […]
Artwork commissioned to celebrate the formation of the Wild Carp Trust
20 October 2020 Celebrated Cumbrian artist Scott Winstanley has been commissioned by Wild Carp Trust chair of trustees Fennel Hudson to create a stylised drawing of a wild carp. The illustration, which will be based on the deliberately lean dimensions of the carp in the Wild Carp Trust logo, shall take centre stage in Fennel’s […]
Wild Carp Trust interviewed by The Country Gent podcast
13 October 2020 Fennel Hudson, chair of trustees for the Wild Carp Trust, has been interviewed for countryside podcast The Country Gent. Fennel talks about his background in angling, his deep passion for the countryside, and how the Wild Carp Trust came to be. You can listen to the 42-minute podcast here: Podcast: Play in […]
Wild Carp Trust interviewed for The Carp Angler Chronicles podcast
4 October 2020 Wild Carp Trust chair of trustees, Fennel Hudson, has been interviewed for The Carp Angler Chronicles podcast. In it he talks about carp heritage, lake hunting, traditional tackle, adventures, and the formation of the Wild Carp Trust. Fennel also shares stories of fishing with his friend Chris Yates and the Golden Scale […]
