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The Environment Agency is working with partners to secure the future of the internationally important population in the River Wansbeck.
It would have been cheaper for an angler to have bought a rod licence after he was caught and fined.
The Environment Agency has prosecuted a Leicester angler who was caught fishing in the close season and without a licence on the River Soar in May this year.
Atlantic salmon stocks in the Tyne remain buoyant despite stocks across England reaching new lows according to a report released last week (Monday 7 October).
Two brothers from Redditch pleaded guilty at Northampton Magistrates Court to fishing illegally.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted an angler from Scunthorpe for fishing during the close season.
Three men have been found guilty at Northampton Magistrates Court in cases brought by the Environment Agency on Monday 23 September 2024.
Fishing at Saltash without a rod licence has left a Bodmin man nearly £500 worse off.
Fishing near Oxford without a rod licence has left a Thornbury man over £300 poorer.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted four anglers from the Doncaster area for fishing illegally.
Four men from Nottinghamshire and one from Derby have been found guilty of multiple fishing offences.
Angler pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence in Bath.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Use of cameras, gear sensors and GPS units will help improve the sustainability of UK fish stocks.
Three men from Leicestershire and one from Nottingham have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence.
All anglers were prosecuted for fishing without a licence and two received penalties for additional fishing offences.
The anglers were found by fisheries enforcement officers to be fishing without a licence in Yeovil, Somerset.
Angler caught and in court.
New legislation requiring all under-12 metre vessels fishing in English waters to have an operational inshore vessel monitoring system (I-VMS) device, is just months away from being in place
Two men from Nottingham have pleaded guilty at Wellingborough Magistrates Court to fishing illegally, in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
Four anglers from Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Telford, and Shrewsbury received total penalties of £1,507 for fishing without a licence.
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