News and communications

The recovery of rare, threatened and important habitats and species in English waters is another step closer from today (Friday 22 March 2024).

• Updated: 22 March 2024

Angler's £120 fine dwarfed cost of rod licence

• Updated: 2 February 2024

Anglers from South, Midlands and London skipped fees used to maintain fisheries

• Updated: 25 January 2024

Rivers feeding the River Loddon restocked for healthy habitats.

• Updated: 18 December 2023

Fines and costs dwarf price of fishing licence

• Updated: 18 December 2023

The Studland Bay Marine Partnership has been awarded £186,000 from the Marine Management Organisation’s Fisheries and Seafood Scheme to support the conservation of Studland Bay’s precious marine ecosystems.

• Updated: 28 November 2023

Over 1,000 miles of the King Charles III England Coast Path completed as Ramsgate to Whitstable stretch is officially opened.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation is working with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the British Army to improve sand dune wildlife at the Penhale Training Area.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

Judge - Thames Water "deliberately misled" the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died.

• Updated: 4 July 2023

South East fisheries officers are responding to hundreds of fish in distress as warmer temperatures raise risk of fish dying and algal blooms in watercourses.

• Updated: 23 June 2023

Dozens of angling clubs and fishery projects boosted by cash grants.

• Updated: 6 June 2023

Written by Angela Gall from Natural England and illustrated by Sarah Gledhill, the children's book about a unique fish's journey comes out on 8 June 2023.

• Updated: 1 June 2023

Environment Agency fisheries patrol officers have caught and successfully prosecuted 7 anglers for illegal fishing.

• Updated: 20 February 2023

New study of weirs and fish passes in the River Aire in Leeds has revealed a huge boost for fish flow with species going faster and further along the river

• Updated: 14 February 2023

Environment Agency funding sees eels, bullheads and brook lamprey back in England's rainforest.

• Updated: 30 January 2023

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted an angler from Nottingham who was caught fishing without a licence at Castle Donington.

• Updated: 25 January 2023

Environment Agency releases 300 blue-dyed barbel to boost population in Berkshire river. Anglers asked to monitor survival and growth rates

• Updated: 19 January 2023

The Environment Agency helped fund Eythrope Wetland, transforming a meadow into home for 122 bird species, including teal, lapwing and ringed plover.

• Updated: 20 December 2022

The Environment Agency is to fund a new study to improve fish passage on the River Tarrant in Dorset.

• Updated: 25 November 2022

This summer was an unprecedented time for EA officers protecting rivers and fisheries across England amidst extreme weather and continuous hot temperatures.

• Updated: 27 September 2022