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Women fishers and environmental activists thank the UK for its legislative support to protect the environment of Baja California Sur.

• Updated: 31 January 2023

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

• Updated: 31 January 2023

A man has been ordered to pay £421 for fishing illegally with a gill net. The Environment Agency fisheries enforcement team witnessed Paul Common pulling in the net at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea.

• Updated: 30 January 2023

Fishing without a licence has cost anglers a total of £2,490 in penalties.

• Updated: 25 January 2023

Environment Agency releases 300 blue-dyed barbel to boost population in Berkshire river. Anglers asked to monitor survival and growth rates

• Updated: 19 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

Threatening behaviour and fishing without a licence cost angler more than £2,000.

• Updated: 19 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

The Environment Agency (EA) is enforcing the annual close season over the winter months to help protect salmon and sea trout from disturbance when spawning, allowing stocks to grow.

• Updated: 28 October 2022

Ryan Sims from Castle Donington, Leicestershire, has been found guilty of fishing illegally.

• Updated: 28 October 2022

A Rotherman man has been found guilty of fishing illegally in a case brought by the Environment Agency to Northampton Magistrates Court on Monday 24 October.

• Updated: 28 October 2022

Two men have been found guilty of fishing illegally on separate occasions earlier this year. 

• Updated: 26 October 2022

Environment Agency officers and Durham Constabulary have helped disrupt illegal poaching of fish in County Durham

• Updated: 25 October 2022

Essex angler fined £240 after illegally fishing on the River Stour.

• Updated: 18 October 2022

A man from Prestatyn, Denbighshire, has been found guilty of fishing illegally on a day’s trip to Hodnet, Shropshire earlier this year. 

• Updated: 10 October 2022

Two men from Staffordshire have been found guilty of fishing illegally on separate occasions earlier this year. 

• Updated: 7 October 2022

Fine and costs dwarf price of staying legal on lake.

• Updated: 8 September 2022

3 men were caught illegally fishing in Norfolk by our enforcement team whilst on patrol.

• Updated: 17 August 2022