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

• Updated: 15 March 2024

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

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Anglers caught without licences in Hampshire and Somerset

• Updated: 17 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

Six fish pass projects on the Rivers Don, Black Brook, Rother and Ryburn are in development to help fish migration in Yorkshire as part of a new partnership.

• Updated: 17 November 2023

Somerset angler caught hook, line and sinker, fishing without a licence and providing false information to Environment Agency officers.

• Updated: 10 November 2023

The Environment Agency’s work to improve eel passage at the confluence between the River Avon and River Severn at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire is now complete.

• Updated: 14 September 2023

Man from Cannock who was fishing without a licence has landed a penalty of almost ten times the amount of an annual licence.

• Updated: 15 August 2023

The fisherman was found to be fishing without a licence and during this year's close season

• Updated: 10 August 2023

Two friends from Birmingham landed more than fish on a day's trip in the close season, and without a fishing licence.

• Updated: 10 August 2023

Fisheries enforcement officers clamp down on illegal angling to protect and sustain fish stocks. Illegal fishing cost London and Kent anglers £539

• Updated: 23 May 2023

The projects range from practical courses in seafood preparation or manning fishing boats through to degree level qualifications.

• Updated: 10 February 2023

Fishing without a licence last summer has cost 3 men total penalties of £1,275.

• Updated: 31 January 2023

Fishing without a licence has cost anglers from Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Crewe total penalties of £2,614

• Updated: 23 December 2022

The Environment Agency has teamed up with Ringwood and District Angling Association to research declining barbel numbers in the Dorset Stour’s Throop fishery.

• Updated: 15 December 2022

The UK has reached an agreement with Norway to secure increased opportunities for the UK fishing industry in 2023.

• Updated: 25 November 2022

£20 million awarded to modernise and improve infrastructure across the seafood sector with a further £30 million available from today

• Updated: 25 November 2022

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted two Staffordshire anglers for fishing illegally during this last summer.

• Updated: 24 November 2022

Environment Agency work to refurbish a vital fish counter on the River Tyne in Northumberland starts on Monday 17 October.

• Updated: 14 October 2022

A new fish pass on the River Exe, at Bridgetown Weir near Dulverton, Somerset, will help fish reach more than 30 kilometres of Exmoor rivers.

• Updated: 12 October 2022