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The Environment Agency is warning anglers that fishing with an illegal cast net could result in a hefty fine or even custodial sentence.
A total of £730,000 is available through the Environment Agency's Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP) to help create sustainable and resilient fisheries.
Three men from Leicestershire and one from Nottingham have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence.
River basin management plans (RBMPs) describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed and funded.
4 boat owners living in Cambridgeshire must pay more than £4,000 after they failed to register their vessels.
Water safety information advising how to stay safe while visiting our waterways.
Some 38 people have been caught fishing illegally and will pay more than £12,000 in fines and costs.
Daily and monthly upstream counts for salmon and sea trout at the fish counter at the Tees Barrage on the lower River Tees.
The National Fisheries Laboratory has seen crucial developments on how species like Prussian carp and topmouth gudgeon can be controlled.
The Environment Agency welcomes anglers back to rivers across England today, Thursday 16th June, as the close season for coarse fishing comes to an end.
HABSCORE is a system for measuring and evaluating stream salmonid habitat features.
Environment Agency enforcement teams carried out more than 13,000 rod licence checks across England in May.
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.
The sources of cypermethrin and pathways into the environment. The amounts of cypermethrin in the water environment and control measures of use.
Only farmed salmon and sea trout, and wild fish caught in legal net and trap fisheries, can be legally bought and sold in England.
13 anglers from Birmingham, Walsall and Droitwich have been found guilty of fishing without a licence in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency has seen an increase in the amount of illegal fishing devices found along East Anglian river banks.
Over 70,000 eels have made the journey to Cambridgeshire from the Sargasso Sea – a journey of over 3,000 miles.
All anglers were prosecuted for fishing without a licence and two received penalties for additional fishing offences.
Eels are an endangered species. Be aware of the strict conditions when fishing them to make sure stocks are not exploited.
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