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The Environment Agency’s Fisheries Enforcement Officers have started patrols along the coast to help protect the endangered European eel from illegal poaching.
MMO introduces licence condition for I-VMS ahead of new legislation
Environment Agency fisheries officers in the North East have stepped up patrols as the close season for coarse fishing begins.
The Environment Agency is reminding anglers that the close season for coarse fishing comes into effect on Saturday 15 March and runs until 15 June inclusive.
A total of 4,000 fish, including chub dace and roach, have been released into the River Weaver at two key locations in Cheshire.
As part of an ongoing Environment Agency crackdown, 6 anglers have been found guilty of fishing illegally at waters in the London area last year.
Anglers from Walsall, Evesham and Burton-upon-Trent have been found guilty of fishing illegally.
‘Blue-bellied’ barbel have been released into the wild by the Environment Agency to see how far they travel.
Three anglers from Nottingham and one from Loughborough have been found guilty of fishing illegally in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
Routine checks by the Environment Agency caught a Cornish angler fishing without a rod licence, costing him £249.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Nottinghamshire man for illegally fishing for crayfish on the River Derwent.
Fishing without a licence has cost an angler from Stafford a fine of £220 plus £836.50 costs and a victim surcharge of £88.
New rules to protect salmon and other fish in the River Camel catchment in Cornwall have come into force.
Sewage flooded into properties and thousands of fish were killed
Four East Midlands anglers must pay fines totalling £710 following cases for fishing illegally.
Three men from the West Midlands have been found guilty of fishing illegally in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
A new agreement will see information, data and technical advice on maritime activity shared, to raise awareness of and prevent illegal acts.
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.
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