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Watch the Video - River Colne - The Drought in this area is caused by the 'Affinity Water' company over abstracting from the boreholes and rivers and sucking them dry for fat cat profits...with no respect or conscience to the devastating consequences to the wildlife, birds, fish and the riverine...

Angling Trust Press Release - Scandalous Waste of Precious Resources as Environment Agency Contractors Destroy River Habitat - After a lengthy investigation, the Angling Trust has uncovered evidence of the destruction of habitat for fish and other wildlife by Environment Agency contractors...

Have you seen bankside destruction like this on your local river? The Angling Trust are investigating so please send related photographs, videos and as much information as possible to james.champkin@anglingtrust.net - Things are moving... Click on the link and Read the comments and find how...

EA RIVERBANK TREE AND VEGETATION HABITAT DESTRUCTION..MESSAGE TO ALL.......... Do you know anyone who might have pictures of the cut down trees or before and after pics...The Angling Trust are on the case regarding the EA tree and bankside veg removal/destruction all around the UK, and have...

I hear that Ashurst Weir on the R.Medway is due to be demolished by the EA. Any more info on that? https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/23/restoring-rivers-to-their-natural-state/

Be There and Ask some serious questions this Wedneday 1st March. Angling Trust South East Fisheries Forum March 1st 2017 Sparsholt College Westley Lane, Sparsholt, Winchester SO21 2NF Tea and Coffee served from 6.40pm - Meeting begins 7.00pm In Association with The Environment Agency...

:rolleyes:The Environment Agency has announced a major crackdown on poaching across all of Hampshire’s rivers, streams and estuaries following a recent increase in fish theft and illegal angling. From today (Monday 1 October), specialist Environment Agency fisheries enforcement officers will...

FRACKING - COMING TO AN AREA NEAR YOU! LANCASHIRE…THEN THE REST OF THE UK! I think this might be of interest to everyone! If you didn’t know…..This has the potential to contaminate the water table and your rivers, lakes, etc. IF THESE APPLICATIONS AND CONSENTS GET THROUGH, THEN THEY WILL...

In Reality, this non action by the protecting authority (NRA/EA) and the government affects all species of fish and riverine wildlife... and all UK rivers. SALMON & TROUT ASSOCIATION SUBMITS LEGAL COMPLAINT TO EUROPE AGAINST UK GOVERNMENT. Complaint by Salmon & Trout Association highlights...

Not directly fishing but could this have implications to other re-introduced protected species and other predatory species? From the end of this week, Britain's minister for wildlife is sending men to destroy the nests of wild buzzards by blasting them with shotguns. Believe it or not, from...

These SW Water Companies would rather see the rivers and streams dry out, leaving fish, wildfowl and wildlife stranded and dying before applying consumer and business restrictions, in fear of losing monetary profit! You would have thought they would have learnt from the SE regions (where...

With the Kentish Stour in such poor condition due to bad river management, poaching, weed cutting, abstraction and cormorant predation etc, the last thing it needed was a couple of hundred seals making their way up river. These pics were taken at Grove Ferry. It is said they have moved over 10...

As mentioned, as Dave Mason is ill at present and recovering in hospital and unable to continue researching and ratifying river record claims, could you please forward 'River Record potential claims to Andy Francis on this website BFW as per usual, who will then forward them onto Rob Swindells...

River Mole disappearance may have been caused by hydropower scheme, says report | This is Surrey The picture is absolutely devastating!

Angling Trust News Release today: http://bit.ly/ogvdEt Angling Trust calls on British Canoe Union to Condemn Mass Trespass Protest The Angling Trust, wrote to the Chief Executive of the British Canoe Union (BCU) today demanding that his organisation condemns a planned illegal trespass...

A friend of mine is having problems on the Kentish Stour similar to what i experienced on the Hampshire Avon regarding Mechanical Weed Cutting. Although the EA have 'generally' ceased down here, they have not totally or elsewhere, and they are still issuing consents and exemptions to others to...

I have tripped this over from the river reports Hampshire Avon because of its importance and to make more public! https://barbel.co.uk/site/vbulletin/forum/showthread.php?t=3397&page=14 onwards. Due for continued Hampshire Avon destruction this week for over a mile upstream. Having received...

Someone prompted me to this news report in the Sunday Mirror 19th June page 11, after a similar incident on the Hampshire Avon recently. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20110619/ai_n57692800/

Report in todays local paper and 'Your Say' comments at bottom left side of page. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8877625.Otter_death_sparks_poisoning_fears_at_River_Stour/

Some anglers and conservation interested people may be aware of this river keepers diary website which is very informative up to date and covers the Hampshire Avon, tributaries and lakes etc in the area. I am sure everyone can learn something from the diaries, especially in the past archives of...