Anger over angling in Britain
Britain is regarded by many anglers as the home of the sweetest trout and salmon in the world. It is now also the center of a testy battle on whether fishing should be allowed at all.
The crusade against angling was launched this winter by the Hunt Saboteurs' Association, a militant wing of the animal-rights movement. The H.S.A. is an intense, zealous group of moral commandos who have been disrupting fox and stag hunts since 1963. (Their campaign has been categorized by one neo-Wildean observer as "the implacable in search of the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.")...