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Using science to combat harmful algal blooms

Posted by: Ben Wagstaff, Posted on: 11 August 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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Responsible angling: a sport worth looking after

Posted by: Steve Chambers, Posted on: 5 August 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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Blue Flag Blackpool is turning the tide

Posted by: Neil Jack, Posted on: 4 August 2016 - Categories: Cleaner Seas, Community, Greener business, tourism, Water

Close your eyes. If I tell you to imagine you’re at the British seaside, with the waves lapping at your feet and the sound of seagulls in the distance, then where do you think of? For millions of people across …

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My dream job

Posted by: Lewis Thomas, Posted on: 4 August 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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On the road to recovery in Yorkshire

Posted by: Andrew Denville, Posted on: 3 August 2016 - Categories: Flood

It has been over 200 days since communities across Yorkshire had their Christmas stolen by Storm Eva. Flood defences were damaged and our telemetry stations – which monitor river levels - logged record-breaking levels, alongside the obvious and devastating damage …

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A lifelong passion that keeps reeling me in

Posted by: Nick Beardmore, Posted on: 27 July 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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Not just the day job: Hooked on fishing

Posted by: Alex Malcolm, Posted on: 13 July 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

Alex Malcolm, Environment Monitoring Officer, Sampling and Collection for Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire I started fishing when I was on holiday in Scotland when I was about 7. That was it! I was hooked from then on and pestered my dad …

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Reopening the River Roch in Rochdale and reducing flood risk

Posted by: Richard Farnell, Posted on: 11 July 2016 - Categories: Community, Flood

Richard Farnell, Leader of Rochdale Borough Council, reflects on an Environment Agency backed project to reopen the River Roch in Rochdale town centre and reveal its historic hidden bridge. When I found out that the Environment Agency and Heritage Lottery …

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Floodplain Meadows: combining beauty with utility

Posted by: Ann Skinner, Posted on: 8 July 2016 - Categories: Community, Flood, Other areas of our work

The value of floodplain meadows was well understood in mediaeval times, when the Domesday Book recorded them as 10 times more valuable than arable land because without them people could not keep their animals alive through the long hard winters. …

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Why we cut the grass on flood defences

Posted by: Martin Howarth, Posted on: 7 July 2016 - Categories: Flood

My name’s Martin Howarth, I manage the Asset Performance Team in Norfolk. The team’s role is to ensure our flood defences are well maintained and able to cope with the pounding they regularly receive from the powerful North Sea waves. …

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