News and communications

The National Fisheries Laboratory has seen crucial developments on how species like Prussian carp and topmouth gudgeon can be controlled.

• Updated: 20 May 2024

Use of cameras, gear sensors and GPS units will help improve the sustainability of UK fish stocks.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

Fishers to benefit from additional post-Brexit quota through two new trials.

• Updated: 8 May 2024

Three men from Leicestershire and one from Nottingham have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence.

• Updated: 16 April 2024

Compensation will provide support for fishers to remain in the industry and diversify

• Updated: 10 April 2024

Total fishing opportunities worth over £970 million secured for the UK fishing industry for 2024

• Updated: 10 April 2024

All anglers were prosecuted for fishing without a licence and two received penalties for additional fishing offences.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

The anglers were found by fisheries enforcement officers to be fishing without a licence in Yeovil, Somerset.

• Updated: 8 April 2024

Angler caught and in court.

• Updated: 5 April 2024

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

• Updated: 4 April 2024

Nottingham’s Colwick Country Park is now home to the largest fish pass in the country thanks to the completion of the Environment Agency’s £12m project.

• Updated: 26 March 2024

Panel date confirmed for the highly popular Fisheries and Seafood Scheme.

• Updated: 25 March 2024

The Environment Agency is reminding anglers that the annual close season for coarse fishing is now in place.

• Updated: 15 March 2024

Following a competitive procurement process, the Environment Agency has awarded the new National Angling Strategic Services (NASS3) contract to the Angling Trust.

• Updated: 7 March 2024

UK secures over 2,200 tonnes of fishing quota through annual negotiations with the Faroe Islands

• Updated: 4 March 2024

Certain fishermen to benefit from fast-tracked applications to Fisheries and Seafood Scheme.

• Updated: 23 February 2024

Highly popular Fisheries and Seafood scheme (FaSS) re-opens for 2024

• Updated: 23 February 2024

Two men from Nottingham have pleaded guilty at Wellingborough Magistrates Court to fishing illegally, in cases brought by the Environment Agency.

• Updated: 21 February 2024

Four anglers from Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Telford, and Shrewsbury received total penalties of £1,507 for fishing without a licence.

• Updated: 20 February 2024

Some 38 people have been caught fishing illegally and will pay more than £12,000 in fines and costs.

• Updated: 14 February 2024