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THE dramatic moment an animal rescuer swims across a lake in Chester to save a distressed bird of prey entangled in a discarded fishing line has been captured on video. The footage also shows the heart-warming moment when the buzzard is released back into the wild after returning to full health following its ordeal. The RSPCA were called out at 9.30am on April 21 after a dog walker spotted the stricken bird hanging from a bush in the island of a lake at the old Mollington Golf Course in T...

Water companies poured raw sewage into rivers for 3 million hours last year, MPs are told The regulator the Environment Agency is failing to hold firms to account, the environmental audit committee was told on Wednesday The huge Mogden treatment plant sent the equivalent of 400 Olympic swimming pools worth of raw effluent into the Thames over two days in autumn   Sewage is allowed to be discharged only during periods of heavy rain

Country Life - Teesdale Mercury

Sat 10 Apr 2021 02.00 EDT It would start with the cellar door. My dad’s friend Darcy would park outside our house with a wooden door strapped to the roof of his Ford Zephyr. Together they would then unscrew the hinges of our cellar door and add it to Darcy’s. With the two doors lashed down they would set forth on the most exciting adventure ever: pike fishing. I was six years old. We lived in south central Glasgow and this was the most exciting and dangerous fishing trip I never got t...

All forms of angling, including night and match fishing, can resume from Monday, March 29. The Angling Trust said the move followed “intense discussions” with Government officials. Jamie Cook, for the trust, said: “Following a ‘fishing out of lockdown’ submission to the Cabinet Office last month we have been pressing for the lifting of the restrictions placed upon angling, when the time is right. “We made it clear to the Government that recreational fishing has provided a va...

Frank Lythgoe’s Warrington Anglers Association column ANDREW Sangam enjoyed four daily sessions on Worthington Lakes fishing at Adlington (No.3) before this smaller of the three fisheries closed for three months on Sunday, March 14, as this operates a close-season opening again on June 16. The total catch from his sessions was eight carp and two bream taken on garlic grill pop-ups with the best day resulting in five carp – the biggest a common weighing 18lbs 11ozs 0drs. Jade Webb – ...

The club is supporting an initiative set up by the Wye Salmon Association which is co-ordinating phosphate testing and providing equipment to clubs and riparian owners on the river. Stuart Singleton-White, campaigns head at the Angling Trust, said: “The Ross-on-Wye Angling Club have shown the alarming levels of phosphate found in the Wye at Ross. “Levels that the wholly inadequate monitoring carried out by both NRW and EA have failed to detect. “These regulators know they are fall...

Source: United Kingdom Government – Environment Agency The Environment Agency is reminding anglers the ‘close season’ for coarse fish in rivers comes into effect from Monday 15 March and runs until 15 June. The annual close season helps to protect fish stocks across England when they are spawning by preventing fishing for coarse fish in rivers, streams, drains and specified canals, as well as ‘sites of special scientific interest’ (SSSI) stillwaters. Throughout the close season, Envir...

Published: 1:11 PM March 10, 2021    Updated: 4:51 PM March 10, 2021 The Environment Agency is consulting on a Natural England permit to place fish barriers across the entrances to Hoveton Great Broad. - Credit: Archant The public is being asked to have their say on controversial plans to remove fish from Hoveton Great Broad as part of a habitat restoration project. The Natural England-led project proposes removing the majority of fish from the broad, a technique known as biomanipulation, wh...

ANGLERS using the Kennet & Avon Canal have been urged to make sure they take home all their tackle after a swan died as a result of being caught by a fishing hook and line. The male Mute Swan was seen swimming frantically around the Bradford on Avon Marina by concerned canal boaters on Tuesday and Wednesday last week while trying to remove the hook. Terry Higgins, 63, who moors at the marina, said: "It was awful. He was just swimming around in circles and was obviously stressed and in a l...