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

• Updated: 16 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

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

A Nottinghamshire man has been found guilty of fishing illegally on two counts in a case brought by the Environment Agency.

• Updated: 8 February 2024

A man from Coalville, Leicestershire has been found guilty of fishing illegally in Warwickshire in a case brought by the Environment Agency.

• Updated: 7 February 2024

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.

• Updated: 26 January 2024

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.

• Updated: 23 January 2024

13 anglers from Birmingham, Walsall and Droitwich have been found guilty of fishing without a licence in cases brought by the Environment Agency.

• Updated: 18 January 2024

UK fishing fleet to have access to 750,000 tonnes of fishing opportunities in 2024 and total value of fishing opportunities increases from £900 million in 2023

• Updated: 8 December 2023

The angler was caught fishing during the close season by Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officers at Hopyards, near Warwick, on the River Avon.

• Updated: 14 November 2023

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.

• Updated: 8 November 2023

A day’s fishing trip has cost two friends from Stafford a total penalty of £998 when both were found fishing in the close season and one had no licence to fish.

• Updated: 8 November 2023

Two anglers from Nottingham are to pay a total of £403 for contravening Environment Agency fishing byelaws at Colwick on the River Trent near Nottingham.

• Updated: 7 November 2023

Two men from Lancashire have been fined for fishing illegally during the close season in the River Ribble at Preston.

• Updated: 7 November 2023

As the roll-out schedule for ordering inshore vessel monitoring system (I-VMS) devices enters its third and final phase, fishers with 6-12m vessels are reminded to take advantage of the grant funding by 30 November.

• Updated: 19 October 2023