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WATER RECREATION IN SAFETY SPOTLIGHT RoSPA’s National Water Safety Congress next week will consider the roles of education versus legislation in promoting the safe recreational use of the sea, lakes, ... Full story

Great Ouse Improvements Continue A programme of winter works on the river Great Ouse continues apace, despite heavy rains halting work for more than six weeks. Although more than ... Full story

Salmon boost for Devon river The River Axe will receive a welcome boost next week, when the Environment Agency releases thousands of young salmon into its clear waters.The re-stocking is ... Full story

Water company fined after sewage spill shuts a Cornish shellfishery ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASESouth West Water was today (28th February, 2008) ordered to pay £8,215 in fines and costs after sewage discharged into the Truro ... Full story

Angling Times Reader Offers From Trevs Those of you who read the Angling Times will have seen some amazing deals in there from Trevs Tackle. Some of these have to be ... Full story

Shimano GTE-C Offers With its retro look, 'old school' black graphite cosmetics - the new Aero GTE-C hails a welcome return to the fold for this legendary Baitrunner ... Full story

THIS IS HARDCORE FISHING – GET HOOKED Hardcore Fisherman released on DVDExtreme action, excitement and incredible enthusiasm – the classic television series Hardcore Fisherman had it all.Now fans old and new can ... Full story

Clearance Work Is A Ray Of Light For Swindon River Bikes, brollies and shopping trolleys were among some of the obstructions cleared from stretches of the River Ray and Whitehill Stream in Swindon by Environment ... Full story

Fishy Mystery At Abbey Hulton Tomorrow, (Thursday 28 February 2008) Environment Agency Fisheries Officers will be helping anglers from Stoke on Trent Disabled Angling Club, Moorside Fisheries, Abbey Hulton, to ... Full story

Angler's Mail - 26th February, 2008 HUGE PREDATORS CAUGHT ON CAMERA AT A WINTER MECCA! See the picture evidence only in this week’s Angler’s Mail magazine – the serious and authoritative ... Full story

Fishermen Couldn’t Slip The Net Environment Agency enforcement officers have seized fishing equipment from two men from the Gloucester area who are believed to have been involved in the illegal ... Full story

Environment Agency appeals to members of the public to help catch oil spill offender Members of the public could hold vital clues to a serious oil spill in the Somerset village of Mark near Highbridge where a pollution clean-up ... Full story

Anglers Needed For Early Warning System Members of the public and anglers are being invited to act as an “early warning system” to help protect the River Tyne and it’s tributaries ... Full story

South West Water Fined After Sewage Escapes Into South Hams Stream ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASESouth West Water was today ordered to pay £7,600 in fines and costs after sewage from one of its pumping stations polluted ... Full story

Illegal Net Lands Fisherman In Court ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASE A fisherman who fixed an illegal net to a Dorset pier was today ordered to pay £815 in fines and costs ... Full story

How To Land Pike...For VERY Brave Anglers! Landing pike safely, both for the fish and the angler, often involves a steep learning curve and even the most hardened pike anglers will still ... Full story

Yorkshire Water fined for consent breach at Naburn ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASEYorkshire Water was fined £6,500 at York Magistrates’ Court today (22nd February, 2008) for a breach of consent at Naburn Sewage Treatment ... Full story

Environment Agency entices Brown Trout back to the Witham Volunteers from the Environment Agency and Grantham Angling Association have been improving stretches of the Upper River Witham in a bid to encourage brown trout ... Full story

Discovery Real Time Extra Goes FISHING ONLY from 31st March!!! Discovery Real Time Extra becomes Discovery Real Time Extra Gone Fishing from  the  31st of March, 2008!  This means the best fishing programmes around on ... Full story

Closed Season Fishing On The Broads ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASEAll fishing in the Broads area is to be closed for three months to protect spawning and help fish populations remain stable.The ... Full story

Anglian Water to pay more than £18,000 Environment Agency News ReleaseMajor Pollution By SewageRaw sewage escaped from an Anglian Water overflow pipe causing a major pollution of the River Ore near Framlingham, ... Full story

The North Ceredigion Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy Environment Agency Wales has developed a plan to make sure there is enough water for the environment and for people in north Ceredigion.Water is an ... Full story

Environment Agency helps Thames fish grow with the flow Perch, pike, bream, bleak, and dace are just some of the fish which are returning to a River Thames backwater this year after it was ... Full story

DON’T LET NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BE THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY! If you are a keen angler then the picturesque rivers and reservoirs of Northamptonshire should keep you hooked. For those who are interested in quietly ... Full story

Salmon and Silver As The Scottish Traditional Boat Festival Launches 2008 Programme A delectable programme of spectacular nautical sights, creative Scottish crafts, sumptuous local produce and the finest in traditional music and entertainment are set to delight ... Full story

E.A. Rescue Rea Brook Fish Environment Agency staff have rescued hundreds of fish which were in danger of being stranded following emergency works on a bridge that carries the Rea ... Full story

Angler's Mail - 19th February, 2008 A FEARSOME KILLER FISH HAS BEEN LANDED IN THE UK!This week’s Angler’s Mail magazine breaks the FULL and in-depth story of a shock catch from ... Full story

Free Competition From Hands First 15 Prizes Up For Grabs!Hands First, a revolutionary new hand care range, has been specifically designed to protect, cleanse and condition your hands, leaving them ... Full story

Cefas inspectors on hand at GO FISHING exhibition Fish Health Inspectors from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) will be visiting the GO FISHING 2008 exhibition for the first time ... Full story

Sea Anglers Look At A Merger NFSA NEWS RELEASEOrganisations promoting sea and freshwater angling in Britain are considering a merger to increase their influence on government, expand the two sports and ... Full story

Cheap John Wilson Reel We've often said that it pays to keep an eye on the TackleBargains website, and here's a prime example of why that's so....At the time ... Full story

RECREATIONAL FISHING 10x BIGGER IN SWEDEN THAN COMMERCIAL SECTOR, REPORT REVEALS EFTTA NEWS RELEASEThe recreational fishing market in Sweden is more than 10 times greater than the commercial fishing market, a new report has revealed.Fiskeriverket, the ... Full story

NE Sea Anglers in Ground Breaking Meeting with DEFRA Defra are to meet with Recreational Sea Anglers from the North-East to discuss radical new proposals which will fundamentally affect all of the region’s sea ... Full story

IGFA Partners with Bonnier Marine Group to Produce Offshore World Championship Long hailed as the “Olympics” of offshore fishing, the International Game Fish Association’s Offshore World Championship stands to grow even larger, thanks to a recently ... Full story

Quick Action Avoids Pollution Catastrophe ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASEQuick action by Environment Agency Wales officers has contained a pollution incident which is affecting a tributary of the River Alyn, near ... Full story

Fish moved from Wedgwoods Main Lake Environment Agency Fisheries Officers have been overseeing the successful movement of a hundred pounds of roach and bream from Wedgwoods Main Lake to restock the ... Full story

Annual Flood Warden training starts in Lincolnshire The Environment Agency has begun a programme of seminars to train volunteer flood wardens on their role during a flood.The series of seminars, which kicked ... Full story

Angler's Mail - 12th February, 2008 LEARN the winter’s hot method to bag-up on commercial pools - and see the World’s biggest carp in this week’s ANGLER’S MAIL MAGAZINE. These ... Full story

Chub Set To Launch New Scales Tackle manufactures Chub are about to launch a new and innovative set of digital scales to the angling market. The scales set new standards for ... Full story

The Water Framework Directive- Will It Really Help Fisheries? There is the feeling amongst many working in fisheries that the Environment Agency (EA), in its role as implementers of the Water Framework Directive, is ... Full story

Costs of £1,300 for fisherman in court case ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASEA fisherman was given two conditional discharges to run concurrently, at Bridlington Magistrates’ Court, for offences involving a net set on the ... Full story

Southern Water fined for sewage error in Herne Bay ENVIRONMENT AGENCY NEWS RELEASEThe Environment Agency has today (Wednesday 13 February 2008) prosecuted Southern Water Services Ltd. after a pumping station failure caused sewage to ... Full story

Scots shame the English and Welsh with plans to clean up dirty beaches The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) today criticises as ‘shameful’ Whitehall proposals to tackle the thousands of tonnes of waste littering beaches in England and Wales, but welcomes plans ... Full story

South West anglers wanted for Environment Agency committee The Environment Agency is looking for new members to join two Regional Committees in the South West. Both committees are statutory and provide advice and ... Full story

MAKE YOUR MARK AT THE SOUTH’S AUTUMN SHOW & GAME FAIR The South of England Agricultural Society’s Autumn Show & Game Fair is fast becoming a firm favourite on the countryside events calendar. Held in the ... Full story

Mystery fish deaths in River Colne Following the death of hundreds of fish in the River Colne over the last few days the Environment Agency is asking for the public’s help ... Full story

SSACN Lifelines Event and Debate in Holyrood Holyrood - 27th Feb, 2008 - a key date & place for Scotland's sea anglers.SSACN are to hold a lunchtime Event in the Parliament building.In ... Full story

IronClads™ Soft Bait Brands & Lake Resources Awarded Best in Show at Chicago Land Outdoors Show Hundreds of exhibitors showed off their wares covering the world of the great outdoors as over 25,000 visitors braved some of the coldest days of ... Full story

HOT News from the IGFA - February 2008 IGFA Offshore World Championship attracting over 60 teams               With just three months away the ninth annual2008 IGFA Offshore World Championship has already attracted over 60 teams to ... Full story

Anglers urge minister: "Think again on licences" Recreational anglers today (Monday 11th February, 2008) urged the fisheries minister, Jonathan Shaw, to reconsider his controversial plans to make them buy licenses to fish ... Full story

How To Make Fishing Lures If you're sick of being stuck indoors, like most anglers in the UK this winter, then this e-book may be just the ticket. It's a ... Full story

Chub Academy recruits two new members Chub are pleased to formally announce they have recruited two new members to join the Chub Carp Academy. John Patterson and Darren Belton come to ... Full story

Farmers invited to help save rare species Farmers are being asked to get involved and help to save rare species in Northumbrian rivers. As part of the process they’re invited to an ... Full story

January 2008 rod licence prosecutions If you bought someone aged 12 years old or over a fishing rod for Christmas, make sure they have a valid rod licence before they ... Full story

Environment Agency takes key advisory role in York Stream development plans The Maidenhead Waterways Restoration Group (MWRG) has joined forces with the Environment Agency (EA) to try and make an ambitious waterways redevelopment a reality.A major ... Full story

South West Water fined £5,000 after sewage overflow South West Water has admitted that sewage overflowed into the River Dart after two pumps failed at Dartmouth last year. The case was brought by ... Full story

Cain Valley celebrates its community river Llanfyllin, Llanfechain and surrounding communities of the Cain Valley in Mid Wales are embracing a new initiative to raise awareness about their local river, the ... Full story

Angler's Mail - 5th February, 2008 DO YOU fish short sessions? Work and family pressures stopping you putting in the number of rod hours you’d like to? Buy this week’s ANGLER’S ... Full story

Bob Nudd Canal Fishing Collection - 3 DVD Box Set I'm glad that I liked this DVD box set, as I have a sneaky suspicion that it's actually physically impossible to write anything bad about ... Full story

Fish find new home in Teesside Environment Agency fisheries officers moved fish to a new home in Teesside last week to give them a new lease of life.Officers moved two thousand ... Full story

Anglers are asked to log it for the future Coarse anglers in the north east have been providing lots of invaluable information on how well Northumberland’s fisheries are doing via their fishing logbooks. As ... Full story

British Pike Championship 2008 West Pond Qualifiers Result 7 anglers fished the fourth and final ACA British Pike Championship 2008 Qualifying match of the winter at Longtown’s West Pond on Sunday, 3rd February, ... Full story

Greys Carp Academy Recruits New Member Hardy & Greys are pleased to announce that Mike Winstone has joined the Greys Carp Academy. Mike comes to the Greys Carp Academy with a ... Full story

Berkley TEC Tools 100lb Digital Scales If you're a big fish angler, the you need big fishing scales! It's no good catching a monster carp or a record cod and then ... Full story

Abu Garcia Cardinal 103 Free Runner Abu Garcia have been specialising in reels for many years. Many sea anglers will swear by their multipliers, which have legendary status on the beaches ... Full story