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Salmon need a helping hand

Posted by: Lawrence Talks, Senior Salmonid Advisor, Posted on: 16 July 2015 - Categories: 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 …

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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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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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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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Bubbles, ammonia and sardines - taking care of your fishery

Posted by: Jenny Smyth, Posted on: 3 June 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Reduced water levels show fish in distress

  For fish all over the country, summer can be a stressful time of year. The hot, sunny weather we enjoy so much can lead to low flows in rivers, and stillwater fisheries (with ponds and lakes) start to warm …

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New online service to help monitor salmon and sea trout stocks

Posted by: Sarah Chare, Posted on: 1 September 2014 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
A new service allows salmon and sea trout anglers to submit their annual catch returns and time spent fishing online.

Whenever anyone buys a rod licence to fish for salmon and sea trout they are legally obliged to let us know if they have caught fish and how many times they went fishing. This is really important data because it …

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Spotlight on salmon: how we are protecting stocks

Posted by: Sarah Chare, Posted on: 22 August 2014 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Fish pass on a weir in the River Tees at Barnard Castle

We recently contacted anglers to encourage more people to return more of the salmon that they catch. Many have asked us what else we are doing to protect stocks. Salmon stocks are assessed as 'at risk' in 16 of England’s …

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Where does your rod licence money go?

Posted by: Paul Lidgett, Posted on: 17 July 2014 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
Our fisheries team rescues fish as the River Lathkill dries up

I’m often asked “why do I need to buy a rod licence, what do I get for my £27?” Apart from it being the law for anyone fishing for migratory and freshwater fish, the income from rod licence sales funds …

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