Posts Tagged ‘Environment Agency’
Fish farm generates future fisheries
MORE than six million larvae and fish were bred by the Environment Agency last year to restock fisheries in England. The agency’s National Coarse Fish Farm near Calverton, Nottinghamshire, produced nine tonnes of fish in 2017, an increase from the six tonnes produced in 2016. Over the 12 months, the farm bred more than 350,000…
Read MoreNew move to save English salmon rivers
THE Environment Agency of England is proposing new measures to protect salmon stocks across England and in the Border Esk, which are currently among the lowest on record. The 2015 national salmon stock assessment indicated that salmon stocks in many rivers across England had failed to meet their minimum safe levels. The 2016 assessment showed…
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