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TAC on Twitter- RT @AnglersMail: Not just one free gift with the new @AnglersMail magazine tomorrow - but a set of three!! #3freegifts @MrCrabtree #, Jun 17
- @thameswater ordered to pay £41,000 for polluting and killing est 4300 fish on the River Ash http://t.co/L6lugYw1X5 #, Jun 17
- BBC News - Work to boost fish numbers in River Thames completed http://t.co/33rfEtxJQR @JohnSut18108564 @EnvAgencySE #, Jun 16
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Latest News
- Thames Water to pay £41,000 for Pollution and Fish Kill on the River Ash 17/06/2013
- Anglers and wildlife groups celebrate damning verdict on the Severn Barrage 11/06/2013
- Water Report for May shows river flows normal for time of year 11/06/2013
- Carping on the River Thames – A Seasonal blog 03/06/2013
- Carping on the River Thames – A Seasonal blog (Part 2) 03/06/2013
- Carping on the River Thames – A Seasonal blog: The Finale 03/06/2013
- Thames Water fined 27K for pollution and fish kill on a Surrey river 31/05/2013
- River waste repels Olympic rower amid Thames Tideway Tunnel works 24/05/2013
- Thames Tideway Tunnel – Registration as an Interested Party 18/05/2013
- Anglers urged to stand up for the Thames 18/05/2013
- Chemical company to pay almost 100K for polluting 50km stretch of water 10/05/2013
- Water report shows rivers in the SE near normal for April 10/05/2013
- SouthWest Water fined for failing to report problem at sewage works 01/05/2013
- Thames boaters urged to renew registrations after crackdown catches 49 evaders 21/04/2013
- Two men receive £4k fine for illegal elver fishing 21/04/2013
News Archive
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Anglers Despair over delays to new Hydropower Good Practice Guidelines
Angling bodies and fisheries conservation charities reacted with despair as it was announced that the long awaited new Hydropower Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) will be delayed even further. Following a year-long consultation with angling and fisheries interests and the hydropower … Continue reading
Thames Tunnel Phase 2 consultation report published
The report outlines the company’s response to all the comments it received during the 14-week consultation, which ran from 4th November 2011 to 10th February 2012. It confirms the project’s preferred sites for construction work remain unchanged, but pledges an … Continue reading
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Tagged Pollution, Sewage, SuDs, Super Sewer, Thames Water, Tideway Tunnel
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TAC and the Riverfly Anglers Monitoring Initiative
The Thames Anglers Conservancy have become the first organisation on the Thames to have joined the Anglers Monitoring Initiative following a training day with the Riverfly Partnership. The Anglers Monitoring Initiative (AMI) was launched in 2007 to establish groups monitoring their local rivers. … Continue reading
West Thames groundwater levels still low despite record rainfall
The Environment Agency has published its monthly Water Situation Report for the South East and despite record rainfall, groundwater levels in most aquifers are lower than normal for this time of year in the West Thames area. Summary – … Continue reading
Biogen fined almost £10,000 for polluting a Bedfordshire stream
Leading anaerobic digestion company Biogen UK Ltd been fined £5,000 by Bedford Magistrates’ Court for polluting one mile of a Bedfordshire stream. The Environment Agency said the pollution was avoidable and it should have been notified sooner so that the … Continue reading
Serious oil spill along the River Bourne
Environment Agency officers have been out since first light to assess the extent of a major oil spill along the River Bourne in Hampshire– one of the country’s most important salmon fishing rivers. Environment Agency officers are doing everything they … Continue reading
Angling Trust calls for a fresh approach to water supply and storage
The Angling Trust has called on politicians to recognise that England needs a completely fresh approach to water supply and storage in order to end the chronic wastage of water in times of flood and the environmentally damaging over abstraction … Continue reading
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Tagged Angling Trust, Drought, Environment Agency, Flood, Thames Water
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