The purpose and objective of the Federation is to assist the clubs to promote, develop and protect the salmon, seatrout and brown trout fishing throughout Donegal.

The Federation regards the rivers and lakes in the County as community assets to be managed, developed and used by the local community for the benefit of the local community.
The clubs therefore see the need to provide and protect good quality fishing to the local anglers and to share this with visitors, again to the benefit of the local community.

The Federation insists that all member clubs must promote the skills and ethics of game angling among young  people.

The Donegal Game Angling Federation aspires to see the formation of a mutually respectful partnership between angling clubs and the government agencies charged with the responsibility for fisheries, thus ensuring that these natural resources are developed, managed and sustained in the most effective manner possible in the future.