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When you may need to fit an eel pass or screen to a water structure and what to submit if applying for a new licence or environmental permit.
An Environment Agency fisheries team has transformed a weir on the River Thames to allow eels to get past it and swim upstream.
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.
Guidance for fish passes where existing obstructions prevent the safe passage of eel and elver travelling up stream.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
You may be able to use an open individual export licence (OIEL) to regularly export similar controlled items to the same customer.
Find out the measures the UK and EC are taking to reduce fishing industry threats to marine life, such as overfishing, finning, and bycatch
Guidance on listed diseases of fish and shellfish and their status in England and Wales, including what happens if a disease is suspected or confirmed.
How to spot equine viral encephalomyelitis, what to do if you suspect it and how to prevent it spreading.
This report provides a new, more realistic approach for modelling the life cycle and population dynamics of eels in our rivers.
A study of the behaviour of eels and fish to find better ways to protect them at river structures.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
This section describes the mechanisms to conserve and protect fish populations.
The National Fisheries Laboratory has seen crucial developments on how species like Prussian carp and topmouth gudgeon can be controlled.
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.
Triennial update on delivery of measures towards the recovery of European eel and 3 yearly stock assessment across UK river basin districts.
How to assess a planning application when there are freshwater or migratory fish on or near a proposed development site.
Midlands rod fishing byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, and where, when and what fish you can take.
Follow national and local rules (byelaws) when freshwater fishing with a rod and line in England and Wales
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