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Environment Agency delivers £1.3 million boost to England’s fisheries
The Environment Agency’s Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP) has invested £1.3 million in projects across England to benefit anglers, deliver improvements to vital habitats, increase fish stocks and improve accessibility to ensure the sport is as inclusive as possible.
Every penny the Environment Agency receives in fishing licence income is reinvested to protect both the sport of angling and England’s waterways. In the last 12 months alone, alongside partners, the FIP has delivered more than 170 completed projects across England.
The FIP funding is matched by local partners including angling clubs and fisheries. The EA has also worked closely with local rivers trusts and the Wild Trout Trust. The total match funding, made up of additional cash and in-kind contributions, is estimated to be more than £3.2 million which continues to have a positive impact on local communities, angling and ecol
THE FRIENDS of Bradford’s Becks are celebrating recent good news about improvements to Bradford’s Becks by organising some guilded walks. The walks will enable people to see progress to date on the projects and will allow people to discuss plans for the future with FOBB volunteers. Last month, Bradford Council agreed to proceed with the renaturalisation of a stretch of Bradford Beck between Poplar Road and Briggate in Shipley. As well as removing the redundant culvert alongside Valley Road, the scheme will improve the ecological habitat, accessibility and visual aspects of this part of the beck. The project is expected to cost £3.25 million and is part funded by the Council with matched funding from the European Regional Development Fund.
Trout Season Is Coming to New Hampshire’s Managed Waterbodies
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April 15, 2021
Concord, NH – You can fish in many of New Hampshire’s managed trout ponds starting on the fourth Saturday in April, and this year’s opening day is April 24. These waters include designated trout ponds, fly-fishing-only ponds, and ponds managed under the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Wild Trout Program. The ponds managed under wild trout regulations are open only through Labor Day, while the waterbodies managed for other trout species close on October 15. These waters are managed specifically for trout and offer anglers the chance to experience exciting fishing in some of the Granite State’s most scenic surroundings.
Fishing for Stream Trout
With thousands of miles of streams across the state, there are ample trout fishing opportunities in New York State. Each year the DEC stocks around 2.3 million catchable-size brook, brown and rainbow trout in almost 300 lakes, ponds and roughly 3,100 miles of streams across the state. Many of these streams support wild populations of trout as well. Fishing access is good with many streams having Public Fishing Rights Easements (PFR) along their banks that allow fisherman access to the water. PFR holdings in NYS currently total over 1,300 equivalent miles on over 400 streams. DECinfo Locator for map of PFR, parking areas and stream reach categories.
Mallicoat: The Idles of March
Don Mallicoat
This is the one month of the year I do not look forward to as a sportsman. I know for a fact that Pope Gregory XIII was not an outdoorsman. No way. If so, when he developed the Gregorian Calendar we use in the western world today he would have taken out the month of March. From a sportsmen’s perspective there is not much of value to the month.
In most states the regular hunting season ends with the last day of February. I guess there is some conservation snow goose hunting to be had, but that usually entails travel and money. Not only that, it doesn’t consume the entire month. That leaves a lot of down time.