Fish and shellfish

Services

Licence for an individual to protect their fishery from fish-eating birds (A06 and A07)

Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery and find out how to report your actions.
Fish pass approval: application

Form (FP002) and guidance (FP003) for approval to install a fish pass on a river, in connection with a hydroelectric-power scheme application.

Invasive non-native (alien) animal species: rules in England and Wales
- Detailed guide
- 22 November 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Permission to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon and sea trout
- Detailed guide
- 13 January 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, and Environment Agency
Fish: advice for making planning decisions
- Detailed guide
- 25 October 2023
- Natural England
Freshwater pearl mussels: advice for making planning decisions
- Detailed guide
- 25 October 2023
- Natural England
Buying and selling wild salmon and sea trout in England: the law
- Statutory guidance
- 16 August 2024
- Environment Agency

Background: Salmon Stocks and Fisheries England and Wales in 2023
- 7 October 2024
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
- Research
Assessment of Salmon Stocks and Fisheries, England and Wales 2023
- 7 October 2024
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
- Research
Agriculture and rural land management: challenges for the water environment
- 7 April 2022
- Environment Agency
- Research
Oestrogenic effects in wild fish: comparing contemporary and historical impacts
- 30 October 2020
- Environment Agency
- Research
Northern Ireland environmental statistics report 2020
- 28 May 2020
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
- National statistics

Joint Fisheries Statement: proposed amendments to Annex A
- 18 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 21 November 2024
Cyd-ddatganiad ar Bysgodfeydd: diwygiadau arfaethedig i Atodiad A
- 10 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government
- Open consultation
- Date closed 21 November 2024
River Esk byelaw consultation
- 11 August 2022
- Environment Agency
- Closed consultation
- Date closed 11 April 2022
Coarse fishing close season on English rivers
- 30 December 2019
- Environment Agency
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 11 March 2019
Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS)
- 18 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland), The Scottish Government, and Welsh Government
- Policy paper

Fisheries annual report 2018 to 2019
- 13 February 2020
- Environment Agency
- Corporate report
Fish Health Inspectorate: Reports 2018
- 28 March 2019
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
- Transparency