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Two men from Nottinghamshire have been found guilty of fishing illegally on separate occasions earlier this year.
A Birmingham angler was caught fishing without a licence at Riddings Fishery near Grendon, Atherstone, Warwickshire.
Fines and costs dwarf licence price as anglers caught in Southampton, Bermondsey and West Drayton
All anglers were prosecuted for fishing without a licence and two received penalties for additional fishing offences.
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.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted two anglers from Gloucester for illegally fishing without a licence.
The Environment Agency is warning those who fish illegally that the net is closing in after a recent rise in angling offences in the South East.
The angler was caught fishing during the close season by Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officers at Hopyards, near Warwick, on the River Avon.
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.
A fishing trip for an angler from Stafford has cost him £443 for not having a valid fishing licence - an annual licence costs from £33.
Two friends from Birmingham landed more than fish on a day's trip in the close season, and without a fishing licence.
A Gloucester angler gave a false name and address when an Environment Agency fisheries patrol found he did not have a valid fishing licence.
Man from Cannock who was fishing without a licence has landed a penalty of almost ten times the amount of an annual licence.
As part of the Environment Agency’s ongoing crackdown, two anglers have been found guilty of fishing illegally on separate occasions this year in Oxfordshire.
Following a competitive procurement process, the Environment Agency has awarded the new National Angling Strategic Services (NASS3) contract to the Angling Trust.
The fisherman was found to be fishing without a licence and during this year's close season
Some 38 people have been caught fishing illegally and will pay more than £12,000 in fines and costs.
A call about illegal fishing on the River Wye made to the Derbyshire Police Rural Crime team has led to a penalty of £1,502 for two fishermen friends.
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.
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