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Meet the Environment Agency angler: Matt Buck

Posted by: MattBuck, Posted on: 6 November 2017 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

  I work as the Fisheries Technical Specialist for the East Midlands region, advising the Environment Agency and our stakeholders on fisheries issues. This involves encouraging the consideration of the natural environment with a focus upon fish health and habitats, …

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Meet the Environment Agency angler: Nigel Hewlett

Posted by: Nigel Hewlett, Posted on: 7 September 2017 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

On a recent holiday in France, a German chap asked me why I fished.  At the time I was fishing the river Lot below a limestone cliff, crested with oak trees and alive with swifts. The sun was sinking and …

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Meet the EA angler Chris Haynes-Brown

Posted by: jasongrant, Posted on: 6 July 2017 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

Chris Haynes-Brown has worked at the Environment Agency for 20 years and is currently employed as deputy director of finance.  Chris started fishing aged 10 and has enjoyed coarse, game and saltwater fishing ever since. I’ve worked for the Environment …

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Protecting our fish

Posted by: jasongrant, Posted on: 16 June 2017 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

    My job as a fisheries enforcement officer (commonly known as a Water Bailiff) is never dull – there is always something going on in the world of fisheries that needs our attention! Many people confuse us with angling club …

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Meet the EA anglers

Posted by: jasongrant, Posted on: 16 June 2017 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

I’ve been a keen angler for more than fifty years. I began fishing on canals and still waters in Merseyside and developed my technique by reading Mr Crabtree goes fishing and articles in the Angling Times. The best fish that …

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Restoring rivers to their natural state

Posted by: Rosie Pyper, Posted on: 23 September 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
Removing the wooden boards at Harpers Weir

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 …

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Get Hooked on Fishing

Posted by: Sarah Collins, Posted on: 26 August 2016 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Get Hooked on Fishing has projects across the UK

“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 …

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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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Norfolk's 5 seasons

Posted by: Louise Taylor, Posted on: 26 November 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water

While we definitely feel the 4 seasons in Norfolk, we also experience another - the saline season. During this (generally) cold, wet and windy season (September through to March), surge tides push saltwater into the tidal rivers. However, add a …

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Getting 'reel' value for rod licence fee payers

Posted by: Tom Howard, Posted on: 27 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
Tom howard with fisheries enforcement officers

Not a lot of people realise how varied my job as a fisheries officer can be. One day I can be carrying out specialist fish surveys and the next, it will be all hands to the pump to assist a …

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