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Three men from Leicestershire and one from Nottingham have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence.
All anglers were prosecuted for fishing without a licence and two received penalties for additional fishing offences.
Four anglers from Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Telford, and Shrewsbury received total penalties of £1,507 for fishing without a licence.
Nine anglers from the West Midlands have been ordered to pay a total of £3,983 after they were caught fishing illegally by officers of the Environment Agency.
Two men from Nottingham have pleaded guilty at Wellingborough Magistrates Court to fishing illegally, in cases brought by the Environment Agency.
Two men from Evesham, Worcestershire have pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence in June. Their cases remind anglers of the importance of having a licence.
Fines and costs dwarf price of fishing licence
The anglers were found by fisheries enforcement officers to be fishing without a licence in Yeovil, Somerset.
As part of an ongoing Environment Agency crackdown, six anglers have been found guilty of fishing illegally in Kent on separate occasions earlier this year.
Fisheries enforcement officers clamp down on illegal angling to protect and sustain fish stocks. Illegal fishing cost London and Kent anglers £539
The Environment Agency is announcing the start of the new fishing season, welcoming anglers back to rivers across 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 is reminding anglers that the annual close season for coarse fishing is now in place.
Two men from Nottinghamshire have been found guilty of fishing illegally on separate occasions earlier this year.
A man from Coalville, Leicestershire has been found guilty of fishing illegally in Warwickshire in a case brought by the Environment Agency.
A Nottinghamshire man has been found guilty of fishing illegally on two counts in a case brought by the Environment Agency.
Man from Cannock who was fishing without a licence has landed a penalty of almost ten times the amount of an annual licence.
Two anglers from Nottingham are to pay a total of £403 for contravening Environment Agency fishing byelaws at Colwick on the River Trent near Nottingham.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted eight men from the West Midlands for fishing offences.
A fishing trip for an angler from Stafford has cost him £443 for not having a valid fishing licence - an annual licence costs from £33.
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