Two Gateshead companies have been fined a total £28,000, after pleading guilty to causing an oil slick on the River Tyne.Brett Oils Limited and Brett Oils Business Services Limited of Pipewellgate, Gateshead, were each fined £14,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,100 each to the Environment Agency, which brought the case at Gateshead Magistrates […]

Following a meeting with a delegation brought by Martin Salter MP, Home Office minister Vernon Coaker has confirmed that the Government and the police will take very seriously any unlawful activity that targets anglers. Mr Coaker has also confirmed that new measures in the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 can be used […]

 The Environment Agency is joining a coalition of government bodies aiming to protect UK plants and animals from invasive species such as Floating Pennywort and Topmouth Gudgeon.Consultation to refine the Governments Invasive Non-Native Species Framework Strategy will focus on stopping further incursions from non-native species and limiting any negative impact from those already established, by: Prevention: […]

The four lucky winners of our Lexibook competition to win four Home Pack Weather Stations worth £29.99 each are listed below.Each correctly answered that the Home Pack Weather Station has THREE sensors.The Weather Station comes with five animated symbols for simple weather forecasting, built in atmospheric pressure sensor, moon and tidal phases, indoor and outdoor temperature display […]

Total Carp – March 2007ON SALE – 23-02-07Something For The WeekendIn their new series, Chris Rose and Steve Spurgeon visit busy day ticket waters at weekends to pit their wits against pressured carp.Follow Your InstinctDave Levy proves that using intuition on a new water can pay dividends and reveals some top virgin-territory tactics.Plastic Surgery – […]

 tcf March Issue – Out Now!  Road Triptcf editor Gareth Purnell has a pole fishing plan to catch big perch on the Great Ouse. Alternative AngleJohn Bailey’s in for double-figure surprise as he targets roach on his beloved River Wensum. Commercial BreakAlex Bones shows that when the going gets tough , dead maggots will get those carp going. Anything But […]

Fishing WalesFishing in Wales has never been so good, you may have recently heard of the massive catches in matches on the river Wye, with 200lb bags being common. Shark fishing off the Pembrokeshire coast is eclipsing anything Looe in Cornwall had in its heyday with blues over 200lb and porbeagles twice that size being […]

Preston Innovations Latex Nets These are made from latex-coated mesh to form a resilient net that dries quickly and manoeuvres easily through water. The strong D-profile frames and large spreader blocks reduce the chance of breakages, making these perfect for commercial fisheries. Available in 18in and 20in diameters.RRP: From £12.99Contact: 01952 290520 APF, Feb 2007 […]

The NAFAC AGM and Thames Fishery Consultative Council Seminar held on Saturday 17th February at Oxford Brookes University was a huge success attracting around 100 anglers from organisations as far afield as Yorkshire, Kent and the Lake District. The event is now so popular that it has become one of the major events in the […]

How the EA hellps biodiversity – a five year reportLicence checks that protect internationally important wildlife sites during the past five years – 250,000.Endangered freshwater pearl mussels successfully hatched in captivity – 70,000.Hectares of new wildlife habitat created in England and Wales – 1,200.Value of maintaining biological diversity – Priceless.A new Environment Agency report detailing […]

The Environment Agency has kicked off the first consultation of a programme to identify what needs to be done to protect and improve rivers, lakes and groundwater to meet new European guidelines.River Basin Planning: Working Together is the first step in the consultative process of developing River Basin Management Plans for each of the River […]

Abattoir waste liquid ended up in Watton Brook near Saham Toney, Norfolk costing Bowes of Norfolk Ltd a £7,500 fine and £5,888 total costs including Environment Agency clean up costs.It is the tenth time the company has been convicted of environmental offences and all of them for breaching the same section of the Water Resources […]

Yorkshire Water has been fined £3,000 by Rotherham magistrates for polluting the River Rother.The company, of Halifax Road, Bradford admitted breaching its permit to discharge into the river in February, 2006, and was ordered to pay £1303.17 costs following the court hearing on February 14.Trevor Cooper, prosecuting for the Environment Agency, said officers discovered the […]

Environment Agency Fisheries Officers this week uncovered a rogue catfish whilst doing a fisheries survey in Canterbury, Kent.Catfish are non-native to the UK but are becoming more and more popular in recreational fisheries. They can pose a threat to the environment by competing with our native fish for food and habitat and spreading disease or […]

Concerns on the stocking of stillwaters were voiced at the Fish Welfare Group. It has become apparent that many fisheries have multiple fish suppliers which makes it difficult to contact trace any health or parasite problems back to any one supplier.  Viv Shears (Sparsholt College) took on the task of producing comprehensive advice on stocking […]