Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association (OATA Ltd) The Voice of the Ornamental Fish Industry in the UK. We also have pages on Facebook & LinkedIn.
Wiltshire, UK
Joined August 2011
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There's an amazing job opportunity coming up at Waltham Petcare Science Institute which is looking for a fish scientist to develop, resource, & manage its internal and external fish care research projects. Apply here linkedin.com/jobs/view/44415… #fishscijobs
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Forget election exit polls or opinion polls! This is the only poll to worry about! We love seeing who comes top because pet shops are such important places to introduce & nurture the wonderful world of fishkeeping. Get voting!
Important update about this year’s Practical Fishkeeping Readers’ Poll!
There’s a new category!
Head to our website (practical.fish/Readers_Poll2…) to find out all the details, including information what you could win from just participating, and to cast your vote!
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We're very pleased to announce we are a new sponsor for this year's @PetShopDayUK! Let's use this campaign to shout about all the great reasons to visit your local aquatics retailer 😍😍🐟🐠🐡Sign up here 👉nationalpetshopday.com/
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We've launched our Sustainable Sourcing Tool today (OATA members were introduced to this last month in our first Member Webinar). Here's our Scientific & Technical Adviser Emily introducing the tool, explaining how & why businesses should use it ornamentalfish.org/what-we-d…
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Make sure you're displaying Be Plant Wise info and talking to customers during pond season!
Are you a plant retailer?
Order your free #BePlantWise kit today from nonnativespecies.org/beplant… to help you #StopTheSpread of #InvasiveSpecies and educate your customers on how they can do this too
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We love it when @PFKmagazine lands in the office! In the latest edition, check out this feature on wild collected fish in Brazil. It highlights the importance wild collected fish offer for providing important livelihoods in communities which don’t always have many other options👏
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We call him Bond... Dr Bond 😁😁 Check out
our Chief Executive Matt on the Freshwater
Network Sunday Live Youtube channel. They range across a wide terrain of topics - and see how many points our PhD boss gets in the quiz! Did you do better? youtube.com/live/OBatb2721RI
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Are you a plant retailer?
Order a free #BePlantWise kit today from nonnativespecies.org/beplant… to help prevent the spread of #InvasiveSpecies and educate your customers on how they can do this too.
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Interesting look at the European aquatic pet market here - and OATA gets a mention about our Code of Conduct which is very pleasing! Sink or swim? Europe’s aquatic pet market - GlobalPETS - globalpetindustry.com/articl…
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OATA has joined with global pet industry organisations to add its support to the Hawaii marine fish industry which continues to face legislative challenges to its ability to collect wild fish. We'd urge UK businesses & fishkeepers to share their support supporthawaiifishers.com/
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Great idea to get these in for pond season!
Are you a plant retailer?
Order a free #BePlantWise kit today from nonnativespecies.org/beplant… to help prevent the spread of #InvasiveSpecies and educate your customers on how they can do this too.
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Dive into Shoal’s latest report in its mission to help more freshwater fish get a name for themselves! In 2025 there were 309 new names added to the ledger – that’s nearly one ‘new’ species each day through 2025. Read why that's important in the report shoalconservation.org/wp-con…
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OATA members – watch your inboxes! Today you’ll get an invite to our first Member Webinar which is happening in two weeks! Join our Scientific & Technical Adviser Emily as she introduces our new sustainable sourcing tool exclusively to OATA members first. We can’t wait!
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We’re very pleased to welcome Clarke Aquatics Ltd as a new member of OATA! If your business is not already an OATA member then why not join us and become part of a community working to champion a responsible ornamental aquatics industry. Find out more here ornamentalfish.org/join-us/h…
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OATA supports this new documentary 👇& we've joined forces with RRK & other pet trade/keeper organisations to create a manifesto calling for Scottish politicians to reject permitted lists. It is a pet ban by another name. Owner education is the way forward ornamentalfish.org/say-no-to…
The Scottish SPCA is urging the Scottish Government to introduce a pet 'permitted' or positive list – a new law that would ban most pet animals.
Our film, DON’T PET ME, examines what these bans mean in practice.
Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=IZnGgCXF…
#DontPetMe
Watch our Chief Executive discuss a wide range of topics as a guest on the East Coast Reefer’s YouTube channel. It would be a shame to miss it! youtube.com/watch?v=R6q8lURh…
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It’s World Aquarium Day (and National Love Your Pet Day!) so it’s the perfect time for some of our team to introduce their own fishkeeping journeys!
#wad2026 #worldaquariumday
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Don’t forget to renew your OATA membership! We sent out renewal invoices last month so if you still haven’t quite got around to paying it this is a gentle reminder! Renew & get our door sticker & a new booklet pulling together info including your Members’ Area login details.
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Who doesn’t love watching their fish? It’s mesmerising – and we know it’s good for our mental health. Now you can turn those observations into citizen science with a new initiative from the University of Glasgow.c 1/3
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It’s launched ShoalBase shoalbase.org, a global, open database of fish social behaviour to bring together observations of how fish live socially (schooling, shoaling, pairing, territoriality, group sizes, parental care, etc.), across as many species as possible. 2/3
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The @vmdgovuk has published new guidance to help businesses understand the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals (like fish) that are not licensed veterinary medicines. If you manufacture or sell these products then find more here. ornamentalfish.org/vmd-updat…
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