Posts about our work protecting and improving fisheries and biodiversity
I am a team leader in the environmental monitoring part of Head Office Operations. My team manage and deliver surface and groundwater water monitoring around England which provides the evidence used to make environmental decisions. I joined the Environment Agency …
As an active angler, I have always happily paid my fishing licence, knowing that it ultimately helps preserve my favourite hobby. Earlier this year I landed one of my best catches- a job as fisheries enforcement officer at the Environment …
Walking up and down beaches with sampling gear during a heatwave may not be everyone’s ideal job but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I am lucky that during the summer, my job consists of sampling the water quality …
The Thames Floating Pennywort Action Group is a team of Environment Agency staff from across our organisation that you have probably never heard of. But we have been quietly working, with invaluable help from local groups, members of the public …
One of the best presents I ever received was a small landing net and telescopic rod for my 4th birthday. The first time I went fishing, I was immediately hooked and this began my lifelong passion for the sport. This …
I am part of a team of Fishery Enforcement Officers that patrols the rivers, still waters and canals in the West Midlands ensuring anglers have a fishing licence and are complying with fishing regulations. I love what I do because …
Nothing makes more difference to our natural environment than farming. It can enhance and enrich it or damage and degrade it. Farming uses almost three quarters of the land in England and farmers are its custodians, producing food for people …
The elver fishery is an area of fishery enforcement that not many anglers will ever see, as it happens on tidal waters at night during the months of February – May. Elvers are juvenile eels and they are currently on …
Across England freshwater ecologists from the Environment Agency sample the ecology and freshwater macroinvertebrates that live in our rivers and lakes. Checking the number, variety and type of freshwater macroinvertebrates in surveys is an excellent way of assessing the ecological …
All invasive non-native species have the capacity to disrupt the natural balance enjoyed by the UK native biodiversity. These species can reproduce faster, tolerate a wider spectrum of habitats, predate more voraciously and can carry parasites and diseases that could …
