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Eight men from the West Midlands have been found guilty of fishing illegally in multiple cases brought by the Environment Agency.
The National Fisheries Laboratory has seen crucial developments on how species like Prussian carp and topmouth gudgeon can be controlled.
The Environment Agency is reminding anglers that the annual close season for coarse fishing is now in place.
Some 38 people have been caught fishing illegally and will pay more than £12,000 in fines and costs.
Anglers caught without licences in Hampshire and Somerset
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
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
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.
Somerset angler caught hook, line and sinker, fishing without a licence and providing false information to Environment Agency officers.
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.
Man from Cannock who was fishing without a licence has landed a penalty of almost ten times the amount of an annual licence.
The fisherman was found to be fishing without a licence and during this year's close season
Two friends from Birmingham landed more than fish on a day's trip in the close season, and without a fishing licence.
Fisheries enforcement officers clamp down on illegal angling to protect and sustain fish stocks. Illegal fishing cost London and Kent anglers £539
The projects range from practical courses in seafood preparation or manning fishing boats through to degree level qualifications.
Fishing without a licence last summer has cost 3 men total penalties of £1,275.
Fishing without a licence has cost anglers from Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Crewe total penalties of £2,614
The Environment Agency has teamed up with Ringwood and District Angling Association to research declining barbel numbers in the Dorset Stour’s Throop fishery.
The UK has reached an agreement with Norway to secure increased opportunities for the UK fishing industry in 2023.
£20 million awarded to modernise and improve infrastructure across the seafood sector with a further £30 million available from today
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted two Staffordshire anglers for fishing illegally during this last summer.
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