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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Shaun Leonard, Director of the Wild Trout Trust, outlines the work of the Trust and its partnership with the Environment Agency. Our wild brown trout, 'Salmo trutta', is a great indicator of the health of our rivers and lakes and …
We’ve been working to allow fish to migrate freely up and down two of Yorkshire’s rivers, taking rivers back to how they would have been before the industrial revolution. In the last few months we’ve made significant additions to Yorkshire’s …
I love my job because every day I deal with something new. As a Fisheries Officer, I'm involved in lots of different work that is aimed at protecting fish in my local area. One of my main duties is to carry …
I am a fisheries project officer for the Environment Agency, before that I also worked for the National Rivers Authority, and I have been involved with fishing for over 13 years. I started life as a water bailiff, a job …
