Good news from the Youths
Calum Robertson (on the right), the current Youth Team Captain has just got a job and a scholarship as a ghillie on the Spey. We wish him well. He is seen in the picture with Calum Clark both receiving river rods kindly donated by Craigallion Angling Club to help with their river experience.
Another team member, Sean Queen, has been accepted for an Aquaculture course at Barony College. A great effort!
All three are longstanding members of the Cormorants, at the Lake of Menteith.
Another team member, Sean Queen, has been accepted for an Aquaculture course at Barony College. A great effort!
All three are longstanding members of the Cormorants, at the Lake of Menteith.
The Scottish Youth Team - Now Not Affiliated to SANA
It is with extreme regret that the SANA Board have to announce the loss of their existing Youth Team and training programme. The Youth Committee have, for several years, accepted a very generous sponsorship package from the Scottish Salmon Company which has greatly eased the young anglers' personal financial pressure of competing at an international level. While this money was given freely and without strings or conditions, the suitability of accepting sponsorship money from a salmon farming company has been widely questioned by SANA members, the Angling press and and in the wider angling community.
A proposal at the recent AGM that 'SANA will cease immediately, the receipt of any sponsorship money from the salmon farming industry' was proposed, discussed and passed by a substantial majority.
As a direct consequence of this vote, the Chairman of the Youth Committee, with the unanimous support of his committee, immediately apologised to the membership for the recent bad press and resigned the team's affiliation to SANA, his position as chair to the Youth Committee and his seat on the board of SANA. He explained the decision was entirely commercially based -- both for the benefit of the team finances and to minimise membership resignations from SANA. He assured the meeting that, if alternative financial support to the Youth Team was forthcoming, their would be no intrinsic objection to re-affiliating to SANA.
The SANA Board will consider the consequences of this situation in due course.
A proposal at the recent AGM that 'SANA will cease immediately, the receipt of any sponsorship money from the salmon farming industry' was proposed, discussed and passed by a substantial majority.
As a direct consequence of this vote, the Chairman of the Youth Committee, with the unanimous support of his committee, immediately apologised to the membership for the recent bad press and resigned the team's affiliation to SANA, his position as chair to the Youth Committee and his seat on the board of SANA. He explained the decision was entirely commercially based -- both for the benefit of the team finances and to minimise membership resignations from SANA. He assured the meeting that, if alternative financial support to the Youth Team was forthcoming, their would be no intrinsic objection to re-affiliating to SANA.
The SANA Board will consider the consequences of this situation in due course.
