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River Rythe pollution incident

The Thames Anglers Conservancy were alerted by a report on the Thames Ditton Residents association forum about a pollution incident on the river Rythe. The Rythe is a small tributary which rises near Oxshott and runs into the Thames, forming the … Continue reading

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Thames Anglers Conservancy at Penton Hook Island

Thames Anglers Conservancy volunteers including juniors, under the guidance of the Environment Agency Fisheries Team, are carrying a series of ongoing long term projects around Penton Hook Island. The first project was to try to increase the flow through the important spawning channel that … Continue reading

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Thames Anglers Conservancy volunteers on the Beverley Brook

Thames Anglers Conservancy volunteers headed out for a Sunday morning clean up along a Thames tributary, the Beverley Brook. A member who regularly walks the reach and had been doing litter picks, reported areas where rubbish was in the river and … Continue reading

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Anglers Dismay at more Thames Hydropower Projects

Anglers Dismay at more Thames Hydropower Projects The Thames Anglers Conservancy are dismayed that the Environment Agency is sacrificing yet more weir pools in the pursuit of renewable energy with its plans to sell the rights to develop Hydropower on … Continue reading

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Help exterminate the Dirty Dozen asks British Waterways

British Waterways is today asking the green-fingered to be aware of the Dirty Dozen lurking in and around their garden ponds and in their fish tanks. Often attractive ornamental aquatic plants and sometimes animals bought as pets or introduced unwittingly … Continue reading

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Non EA Rod Licence Website Applies Unneccessary Charges to Anglers

The Angling Trust is warning all anglers NOT to buy their licence from the commercial fishingrodlicence.com web site, unless they want to pay an unnecessary extra charge of £14 for checking over their application.  This service is of no real … Continue reading

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Thames Water fined for Pollution entering the Basingstoke Canal

A water company which allowed untreated sewage to enter a Woking canal, killing hundreds of fish, was today (Friday) ordered to pay a total of GBP17,403 by magistrates. Thames Water, based in Reading, admitted a charge of allowing polluting matter … Continue reading

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Thames Anglers Retrieve a Sofa from the River

Sunday 18th April saw our volunteers out again, this time following up on a report that a sofa had been dumped into the marginal Lower Thames It is not clear how this may have been dumped but seems possible that it … Continue reading

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Preliminary Suggestions for Marine Conservation Zones Revealed

South Suffolk, Essex, Thames and North Kent Preliminary suggestions for marine conservation zones revealed The Balanced Seas Marine Conservation Zone Project, which is developing the recommendations for Marine Conservation Zones in the south-east, reached a significant milestone on 28 February … Continue reading

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Thames Anglers Conservancy, A Season of Direct Action‏

Over 200 bags of rubbish, shopping trolleys and much more, its was quite a first season for Anglers cleaning up the Thames Fed up with seeing litter on the riverbank and hearing Anglers sometimes get the blame, the Thames Anglers … Continue reading

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