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Latest hydropower decision: angling rights to be sacrificed ‘for the greater good’

Latest hydropower decision: angling rights to be sacrificed ‘for the greater good’ A recent licensing decision by the government body tasked with promoting sustainable development and at the same time protecting the country’s existing natural assets has thrown into sharp … Continue reading

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Innovative eel pass lands Environment Agency Project Excellence Award

An ingenious new system to help baby eels (elvers) migrate up UK rivers has just been voted joint winner of the Environment Agency Project Excellence Awards 2014 for Innovation. Hundreds of sites that have been almost impossible for elvers to … Continue reading

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The Traditional River Close Season, time for Change?

The river close season always sparks debate as to whether it is still fir for purpose, actually benefits our rivers, or is just an antiquated rule that should be removed?   The Angling Trust has set up a page with … Continue reading

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Environment Agency Admits to Serious Failures over Fish Kill Investigations

  The Environment Agency (EA) has admitted that it has failed to follow its own procedures when investigating pollution incidents which cause fish kills. Fish Legal has criticised the EA about its pollution response several times over the past few … Continue reading

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Dredging isn’t a ‘silver bullet’ to solve the winter flooding crisis

​Dredging isn’t a ‘silver bullet’ to solve the winter flooding crisis. It can actually make downstream flooding worse, is usually bad news for the environment and would have delivered a staggering extra 550 million gallons of floodwater a day into … Continue reading

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Hogsmill Pollution – Why Anglers are Important to our rivers

Whilst out looking at the River Hogsmill in Kingston upon Thames, a local fisherman spotted pollution being pumped direct into the water from a large building site. The keen eyed angler called the Environment Agency hotline to immediately report what he … Continue reading

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Environment Agency West Thames Fisheries Newsletter Jan 2014

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Environment Agency Position Report: “Our ambition for eel in England”. January 2014

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Blueprint for Water coalition welcome changes to the Water Bill

The Blueprint for Water coalition of environmental groups has welcomed changes to the Water Bill that will increase the sustainability of the water industry by placing a new, strengthened ‘resilience duty’ on the regulator. The Water Bill currently passing through … Continue reading

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New Threat to our Rivers from Hydropower Grants

The Angling Trust has raised concerns that the Community Energy Strategy announced by Energy Minister Ed Davey today, coupled with the already generous Feed in Tariffs offered by government, will lead to a fresh wave of applications for planning permission … Continue reading

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