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National trout and grayling strategy

Download our national trout and grayling strategy, find out about new rules for stocking brown trout, and download annual newsletters on how the strategy is progressing.

Download the strategy

What will the strategy do?

The national trout and grayling fisheries strategy aims to conserve and improve wild stocks of trout, sea trout, char and grayling, while enhancing the environment for all types of fisheries for these species in England and Wales. It also aims to enhance the social and economic benefits gained from these fisheries. 

New rules for stocking brown trout

New rules to protect brown trout are being introduced as explained in the pdf below:

Trout and grayling fisheries strategy newsletters

Our annual newsletters give you the latest information on how our national trout and grayling fisheries strategy is being implemented. There’s news of our new stocking policy and other contributions relating to aspects of our strategy: