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The Environment Agency is delighted to be involved in an independent, ground-breaking project tracking Atlantic salmon in the River Derwent, starting in April 2020.
Environment Agency officers delivered a Christmas stocking with a difference as they released more than 13,000 fish into the River Great Ouse.
A project to revitalise one of Yorkshire's longest river has been given a further boost after The National Lottery Heritage Fund announced today it had awarded a £714,000 grant to the Environment Agency to return salmon…
Anglers in Warwickshire are being encouraged to get involved in an Environment Agency survey to identify how fish migrate along the River Alne.
The Environment Agency has decided to retain the current coarse fishing close season on English rivers.
The Environment Agency is carrying out a project to look at barbel and chub stocks in the Dove and Upper Trent in Staffordshire.
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A new National Angling Strategy has been launched to encourage greater participation in the sport by focusing on the health and well-being benefits that angling can bring.
The Environment Agency is today introducing an emergency byelaw to protect salmon in the River Severn and its estuary, after a review of recent data showed a significant reduction in salmon stock levels in the Severn.
Fishing licence income has funded £10,000 worth of equipment to help protect fisheries in East Anglia and save fish in distress due to the effects of hot and dry weather.
Cefas has been designated by the OIE as the Collaborating Centre for Emerging Aquatic Animal Disease.
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Anglers in the North East are being reminded to ensure they abide by national and local byelaws as enforcement officers cast their net on illegal fishing.
A man from North Tyneside has been fined £319 for fishing illegally on the River Tyne and obstructing an enforcement officer in the execution of his duty.
The Environment Agency’s National Coarse Fish Farm near Calverton, in Nottinghamshire, produced a record breaking number of fish in 2018.
Fifteen people caught fishing illegally in Norfolk, Essex and Suffolk have been ordered to pay fines, costs and victim surcharges totalling nearly £9,000.
The Environment Agency has released its Annual Fisheries Report 2017-18 providing anglers with details of how their fishing rod licence money is spent.
A 21-year-old man has been successfully prosecuted by the Environment Agency after being found guilty of fishing without a licence in July 2018.
The Environment Agency is reminding anglers that coarse fishing on rivers is closed for three months from Friday 15 March.
Today the Environment Agency revealed which fish will feature on the 2019 fishing licences.
Three men were fined and ordered to pay costs totalling more than £1,800 after they were caught fishing illegally in Tewkesbury.
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