Maurice was well known for his involvement in all fishery matters having been one of the forefathers in the creation of Angling Consultative Committees
The first of these consultatives was the Great Ouse Fishery Consultative Association (GOFCA) founded in 1948 by the late Maurice Kausman, OBE of Huntingdon who, when he had lived in London in the 1920's been involved in the drafting of the 1923 Salmon & freshwater Fisheries Act. This Association advised the Great Ouse River Board on its fisheries responsibility and advised the Minister on appropriate persons with fisheries expertise and invariably, influence with fishery interests, to serve on the Board. GOFCA had, within its extensive membership base, all of the angling and fisheries organisations with water holdings in the Great Ouse catchment.
Translocation of pikeperch to the River Great Ouse system occurred in 1960,
when mature pikeperch were taken from Woburn to stock ponds of the then
Great Ouse River Authority. The fish bred successfully in the ponds and ninetyseven
individuals from this stock were subsequently released into the Great
Ouse Relief Channel at Stowbridge in March 1963 by the then Fisheries officer Norman Mckenzie and his bailiffs
