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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.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
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.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
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.
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.
Research project concerned with the adaptation of standard hydrometric structures to aid the migration of fish.
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.
A study to assess the cumulative effects of multiple hydropower schemes on migratory fish species, such as salmon, in English rivers and whether these effects were significant.
Research on the adaptation of standard gauging structures to aid the migration of fish.
This section describes the mechanisms to conserve and protect fish populations.
North West and Border Esk byelaws are statutory rules (regulated by law) and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Trials to see if structures that assist upstream movement of fish can be installed alongside devices that measure river flow without affecting reliability of measurements.
Over 48,000 fish receive new homes in the South East thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking programme
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
Project to describe the swimming performance of selected British freshwater fish.
Development of a low-cost, user-friendly system for measuring the success of fish passes, structures aimed at helping fish overcome obstructions in rivers.
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