Working to improve Yorkshire’s globally rare habitats
Working to improve Yorkshire’s globally rare habitats
The Environment Agency’s Amanda Foster looks at work to improve chalk streams in Yorkshire.
Jail term for waste criminal who hoarded junk
Everyone is guilty of hoarding things from time to time but some waste operators can take things too far. It is one thing to hoard old photographs or a couple of coats, but it’s not often that this has an …
Why fishing is my life
From a very young age, I knew I just had to fish! I really do remember watching a fly fisherman from my parent's hotel bedroom window when we were on holiday in Wales. It was on the verge of dawn …
What are starry smoothhound sharks doing in Sussex?
The recent news about the sharks in Sussex caused a flurry of excitement on Twitter. We’re proud of our work to build natural flood defences and protect nature at Medmerry. Here’s how it came about. Medmerry is the UK’s largest ever managed …
Salmon need a helping hand
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Lawrence Talks, Senior Salmonid Advisor, Posted on:
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Fisheries and biodiversity
One of my first encounters with salmon was as a Fisheries Officer in Hampshire in the early 1990s rescuing a thirty pound salmon from a dead-end river channel in Romsey on the River Test, which was a favourite haunt of …
Working to stop waste criminals from breaking the law
The waste industry is big business. Since I've been working at the Environment Agency, it has grown and rapidly developed and changed. There has been a move away from the use of landfill and with more waste being re-used and …
Fisheries Officer Stuart Manwaring on dealing with a ‘typical’ fish kill
A recent call to our incident hotline alerted us to large numbers of dead and distressed fish at Ladygrove Lakes, Didcot. Given the reported scale of the incident, we immediately despatched a fisheries officer to investigate. As the lakes are …
Dirty business of clearing up waste crime
Making sure waste sites are doing what they should is a dirty business – but someone has to do it. The Environment Agency manages the regulations that control the disposal, management and transfer of waste at sites across England. These …
Making the impassable possible
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Katherine Causer, Posted on:
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Fisheries and biodiversity, Uncategorized, Water
It’s 15 years since I first filmed a poignant video of salmon trying to negotiate a weir on the lower reaches of the River Bollin, in Cheshire, during the breeding season. Salmon disappeared from the Bollin nearly two centuries ago …
Working hard to protect 15,000 properties along the River Thames
Over the last few months we have been been busy modelling flood risk for the River Thames Scheme, which will make sure 15,000 homes and businesses are better protected from flooding. The project will reduce the flooding risk of communities from Datchet to Teddington through a programme of projects …
Salmon: an icon of our natural heritage or an easy cash-in-hand earner?
My kids and I sometimes creep around the countryside at dawn and dusk to spy on wildlife, be it otters, barn owls, snakes, newts, bats or stag beetles. We are always enthralled by salmon in our local river, the Itchen …