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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
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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.
Some 38 people have been caught fishing illegally and will pay more than £12,000 in fines and costs.
A Nottinghamshire man has been found guilty of fishing illegally on two counts in a case brought by the Environment Agency.
A man from Coalville, Leicestershire has been found guilty of fishing illegally in Warwickshire in a case brought by the Environment Agency.
Nine anglers from the West Midlands have been ordered to pay a total of £3,983 after they were caught fishing illegally by officers of the Environment Agency.
Two men from Evesham, Worcestershire and a man from Gloucester have been found guilty of fishing without a licence in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
13 anglers from Birmingham, Walsall and Droitwich have been found guilty of fishing without a licence in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
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The angler was caught fishing during the close season by Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officers at Hopyards, near Warwick, on the River Avon.
Two men from Evesham, Worcestershire have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence in June. Their cases remind anglers of the importance of having a licence.
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