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Fisheries Officers in the South West are clamping down on illegal activities with the help of the Avon and Somerset Police drone unit.
A day's fishing led to a penalty of £249 for Yeovil fisherman Alan Reid after he was fined a total of £120 and ordered to pay costs of £135 and a victim surcharge of £34.
The Environment Agency has begun work to make it easier for fish and eels to swim up and down the River Frome in Yate, north Bristol.
Environment Agency extends long-standing partnership with the Wild Trout Trust to help improve river habitat for fish and wildlife
The Environment Agency is urging anglers and rivers users to remain vigilant to suspicious activity after a man is fined for killing fish with banned equipment.
The Environment Agency has renewed restrictions on salmon fishing on the River Wye in England in response to the decline in migratory salmon stocks.
Banks of the River Lugg were damaged in December 2020 causing suspected significant and long-term ecological harm.
Angler found guilty of breaching Nottinghamshire fishing byelaws.
Thousands of fish have found new homes in Cornwall and around the Plymouth area thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking programme.
Thousands of fish have found new homes just in time for Christmas thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking programme.
Vulnerable fish populations given shelter from extreme weather, including flooding.
The £2.5 million project to remove the Dovecliff weir at Egginton, South Derbyshire is now complete following a 24-month programme of works.
The Environment Agency has purchased a thermal imaging camera for fisheries enforcement activity in East Anglia.
The Environment Agency has granted a permit to place fish barriers across the entrances to Hoveton Great Broad as part of a restoration project.
Nottingham’s Colwick Country Park will be home to the largest fish pass in the country under plans to be unveiled by the Environment Agency at a public drop-in event on Tuesday 5 October.
The Environment Agency is introducing new byelaws to help protect increasingly vulnerable stocks of salmon.
The Environment Agency is working with Northumbrian Water to open up the River Tyne to migrating eels, as well as carrying out a fish counter refurbishment.
16 anglers were served notices for fishing offences in Lincolnshire during a multi-agency clampdown on illegal fishing.
The Environment Agency has released thousands of young grayling into the region's rivers to give stocks a boost and offer more opportunities for anglers.
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