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What is drought? 

What is drought? 

Over the past 50 years, England has suffered lots of droughts - some of the more notable ones include 1975-76, 1989-92, 1995-96, 2004-06, 2011-12 and recently 2018, 2022 and 2025. But what does this mean, how does the Environment Agency …

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Where the trout are really wild, things are OK

Posted by: Shaun Leonard, Posted on: 23 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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Putting fish on the ‘highway’ to success

Posted by: Jerome Masters, Posted on: 22 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Ward End Weir on the River Don after work had been done

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 …

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Out on patrol with our fisheries enforcement team in Cheshire

Posted by: Ian Wood, Posted on: 19 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water

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 …

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Working together to create a better place for fish

Posted by: Mike Farrell, Posted on: 18 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

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 …

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Free mapping data will elevate flood risk knowledge

Posted by: Dr Alison Matthew, Posted on: 16 June 2015 - Categories: Flood, Regulated industry, Water
Coastal LIDAR data

For the past 17 years we have been capturing LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) data in England. LIDAR uses a laser to scan and map the landscape from above and is widely considered to be the best method for collecting …

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Fishing is a family thing

Posted by: Jo Long, Posted on: 16 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Woman fishing on bank

Fishing is always something I do with my dad. He taught me how to fish and now it's quality time we spend together. I was about 8 or 9 when he first took me fishing. I grew up on the …

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School of fly fishing

Posted by: Peter Giles, Posted on: 12 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Two men learning how to fly fish

I have been fly fishing for 55 years and teaching it for 28 years. Every day and with every person I teach, I see how fly fishing benefits both experienced and new anglers. I have all sorts of people come for …

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Working together to tackle tough new standards for swimming

Posted by: Karen Irwin, Posted on: 12 June 2015 - Categories: Water
Mothecombe beach

The bathing water quality of our beaches is hugely important. In Devon and Cornwall, where I work, we have 144 ‘designated’ bathing waters – sites determined by the numbers of people using the spot for swimming. The vast majority of …

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Don’t catch a cold, catch a fish

Posted by: Hugh Bunker, Posted on: 10 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
A happy angler

The nutritional benefits of eating fish are well known – but it’s the health-boosting power of catching them that are arguably less well known. Angling is one of the UK’s most popular pastimes and it’s one of the healthiest too.  In …

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From a phone call to a fish rescue

Posted by: Steve Lane, Posted on: 9 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
Fish being rescued by the team

When you are dealing with a water body the size of London’s Hyde Park, the presence of two or three dead fish may not seem significant, but it can be an important early warning that something is wrong. So when …

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