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Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
When fishery owners and suppliers of live fish must get a fish health check. How to arrange the check and how to report the results.
Guidance by the Fish Health Inspectorate and Environment Agency: run a fish or shellfish farm, move live fish or shellfish or hold non-native species.
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.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
Research project concerned with the adaptation of standard hydrometric structures to aid the migration of fish.
This section describes the mechanisms to conserve and protect fish populations.
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.
Research on the adaptation of standard gauging structures to aid the migration of fish.
Nottingham’s Colwick Country Park is now home to the largest fish pass in the country thanks to the completion of the Environment Agency’s £12m project.
South West byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Development of a low-cost, user-friendly system for measuring the success of fish passes, structures aimed at helping fish overcome obstructions in rivers.
A literature review was undertaken, to consider existing knowledge concerning the occurrence, causes and implications of migration by coarse fish (non-salmonid freshwater fish) occurring in England and Wales.
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.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
Follow national and local rules (byelaws) when freshwater fishing with a rod and line in England and Wales
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
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