The word "anglers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people who fish with a rod and line. For example, "The anglers on the lake were eager to catch their first fish of the day."
In places, anglers have annexed enormous stretches and canoeists face a fight to open up new waters.
On Southend Pier, the world's longest, which ends after 1.34 miles in water so deep that flounder, mackerel, cod and plaice can be caught in it, a grey August day finds knots of anglers at every shelter.
Recently, anglers and river owners have been increasingly worried that fewer and fewer salmon have been travelling upriver.
Drift netters operating off north-east England are also in his sights; a pre-April ban on such fishing, ordered by the government, is thought to be one reason why spring runs of salmon were better in east coast rivers.Other issues are still troubling anglers.
But that does not help wild fish swimming past.The anglers claim that the spread of fish farming along Scotland's west coast is the reason why the area's rivers yielded 64% less fish in 2000 than in the previous year.
Not all researchers were at sea; others trawled through historical records, read whalers' diaries and even studied photos of prize fish taken by Floridian anglers to work out the state of the oceans in earlier times.Their stories are telling us that the oceans were far more productive in the past.
Paul Jacques, of the state wildlife department, thinks this is because Maine is better than its neighbours at keeping game and fish populations high for hunters and anglers.
Some 71m Americans say they watch, feed or photograph wildlife in their spare time, more than play computer games, and 34m are hunters or anglers who also, in their own way, enjoy wildlife.George MacKerron and Susana Mourato from University College London and the London School of Economics recently looked at the relationship between happiness and nature.
It is enough now just to tag a marlin reeling it in close, marking it and releasing it to fight another day.In this section What's wrong with copying Of greyhounds and gangsters It's the game that counts Blue Morpho and Magnificent Owl ReprintsBlue-marlin fishermen (like most anglers) treat statistics with the scrupulousness of a cricket scorer.
These high-tech baits and lures have become big business: American anglers spend more than $2 billion on all types of kit each year.
The river's anglers traditionally sent the first salmon caught each year to the president, but the last time this was done was in 1992, to George Bush senior.
