News and communications

The Environment Agency is working with partners to urge the protection of pike in the Broads during the warm weather period.

• Updated: 20 July 2022

Environment Agency officers are on the ground protecting fisheries across England as temperatures soar.

• Updated: 18 July 2022

Angler spotted just inside pause period to allow fish to spawn and develop.

• Updated: 28 June 2022

The Environment Agency welcomes anglers back to rivers across England today, Thursday 16th June, as the close season for coarse fishing comes to an end.

• Updated: 16 June 2022

A joint prosecution by Natural England and the Environment Agency for damages to the River Lugg has progressed following guilty pleas by the defendant.

• Updated: 19 May 2022

The funding has helped to enhance fisheries, boost fish stocks and make improvements for anglers, angling facilities and the environment.

• Updated: 17 May 2022

Fisheries Improvement Fund (FIP) invests £3.5 million to benefit fisheries and anglers across England

• Updated: 13 May 2022

Former Footballer and Soccer AM star Jimmy Bullard urges the public to get out in nature and go fishing

• Updated: 11 May 2022

Environment Agency extends long-standing partnership with the Wild Trout Trust to help improve river habitat for fish and wildlife

• Updated: 14 April 2022

Banks of the River Lugg were damaged in December 2020 causing suspected significant and long-term ecological harm.

• Updated: 9 March 2022

Partners have joined forces to help safeguard the future of the native white-clawed crayfish to ensure 2022 isn’t their final year in Northumberland's rivers.

• Updated: 31 December 2021

Officers from the Environment Agency and Darlington Borough Council are targeting illegal fishing activity on the River Skerne.

• Updated: 24 November 2021

A new chalk stream strategy, published today by Catchment Based Approach’s (CaBA) Chalk Stream Restoration Group (CSRG), sets the future direction needed to protect and enhance England’s chalk streams.

• Updated: 15 October 2021

A consultation proposal to grant a permit for temporary fish barriers at the entrance to Hoveton Great Broad, Norfolk, is being launched today.

• Updated: 16 August 2021

The natural environment along Bradford Beck has had a welcome boost now a three year river restoration project is complete.

• Updated: 21 June 2021

The Environment Agency has invested just over £52,000 towards 12 projects across Hampshire and Sussex.

• Updated: 3 June 2021

A partnership project benefiting a range of wildlife has been completed on the River Stour, near Bures.

• Updated: 26 February 2021

Three tributaries of the River Tamar in Devon are about to be improved thanks to a new partnership project supported by the Environment Agency.

• Updated: 17 February 2021

Thousands of fish have found new homes just in time for Christmas thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking of Somerset’s rivers.

• Updated: 22 December 2020

Proposals to open up a 50 mile stretch of coast between Salcott and Jaywick have been unveiled by Natural England.

• Updated: 15 October 2020