Posts about our work protecting and improving fisheries and biodiversity
I recently finished an 11 month assignment working for the South East Rivers Trust, an environmental charity dedicated to conserving and restoring rivers. Rivers trusts are national and have been described as having “wet feet” concentrating much of their effort …
This Sunday (25 September) is World Rivers Day. In this blog Judy Proctor writes about the Environment Agency's work to help salmon thrive in England's rivers. I have been leading the salmon 5 point approach for nearly 5 months and …
This blog originally appeared in the Angler's Mail I’m a fisheries officer based in the North West, within the Environment Agency’s Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire fisheries team. I’m currently working with the Angling Trust alongside their local enforcement …
The brown trout was recently voted the nation's favourite fish. Here fisheries technical officer Pete Turner talks about his work to help them thrive in Yorkshire. Eastburn Beck, like many tributaries of the River Aire, has its problems. Over the …
“Get Hooked on Fishing – they just take kids fishing….!” These are words which I hear fairly regularly and in fact couldn’t be much further from the truth. I’ve been involved with the charity Get Hooked on Fishing (GHoF) since 2011 …
I’ve been an angler for 27 years and worked for the Environment Agency for 15 of those. For some reason I have always had an affinity with water and fishing. My dad was never an angler but I used to …
This is a guest blog by Ben Wagstaff. Ben did his undergraduate in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry at UEA and then a Masters in Chemistry in Professor Rob Field’s group at the John Innes Centre. In October 2013 he started his …
I have been an angler since the age of 4 (far more years than I am prepared to admit!) and been privileged to work for the Environment Agency’s fisheries team in a variety of roles for over 25 years. It’s …
I first started fishing when I was 11 on a holiday to Normandy in France. Whilst staying in a traditional farm cottage with a small brook running through the grounds, I convinced my mum to buy me a small whip …
Nick Beardmore joined the Environment Agency in 1999 as a water baliff. Between 2006 and 2011, he also worked as a water sampler alongside his enforcement work. For the past five years he has been a full time fisheries enforcement …
