Yearly Archives: 2011

Taking Action To Tackle Poaching

The Angling Trust, angling's representative body, has launched a Seven Point Plan to tackle poaching and fish theft in English waters. There have been widespread reports of poaching and large numbers of fish being taken illegally by individuals and criminal … Continue reading

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Local water company prosecuted for breaches of abstraction licence

The Environment Agency has prosecuted (27 October) United Utilities Water Plc for 4 offences of failing to comply with the requirements of an abstraction licence. The company pleaded guilty to all charges at West Allerdale Magistrates Court and was fined … Continue reading

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New Angling Platforms on the Thames at Penton Hook

Five new angling platforms will give anglers even better spots to fish thanks to the Environment Agency. The new platforms, which are located along the River Thames at  Penton Hook Lock island in Staines will improve angling access to the … Continue reading

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Angling Trust calls on British Canoe Union to Condemn Mass Trespass Protest

The representative body for anglers in England, the Angling Trust, wrote to the Chief Executive of the British Canoe Union (BCU) today demanding that his organisation condemns a planned illegal trespass protest on Saturday 22 October 2011 on the Hampshire … Continue reading

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Rare seahorse discovered in the Tidal thames

The Environment Agency has found evidence of a colony of seahorses in the Thames, during a routine fisheries survey at Greenwich. This is the first time that these rare creatures have been found so far up the Thames and the … Continue reading

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Accessible angling on the Thames hopes to hook new enthusiasts

  Five new angling platforms will give anglers even better spots to fish thanks to the Environment Agency. The new platforms, which are located along the River Thames at  Penton Hook Lock island in Staines will improve angling access to … Continue reading

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New name for Britain’s new waterways charity

6 October 2011 British Waterways The transition trustees of the new charity being established to tend 2,000 miles of canals and rivers in England and Wales from April 2012 have today (6 October) announced that it will be called the … Continue reading

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Environment Agency tackling fire foam in River Wandle

Environment Agency 23-Sep-2011   Officers from the Environment Agency are monitoring quantities of foam that have collected on the River Wandle. The foam escaped into the river as fire fighters fought to tackle a serious fire at a waste tyre … Continue reading

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Amazing captures in the Lower Thames Survey

The Environment Agency Fisheries team have been carrying out surveys along the river Thames and the TAC were invited along to help for a day, of course we were delighted to accept. The fish survey is carried by out using … Continue reading

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David Walliams’s Thames swim: it will take a super-sewer to get London out of this mess

If I were not so infernally busy, I think I would go to the banks of the Thames and cheer for David Walliams as he continues his epic downriver migration – like a lost whale or some vast confused salmon … Continue reading

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