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To: The Environment Agency
Abolish the coarse fishing close season on rivers
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Look again at the decision the Environment Agency took to retain the coarse fishing close season on rivers and to now remove it in line with the wishes of the majority of respondents to the survey.
Why is this important?
With increasingly wet winters, river fishing is becoming more and more restricted due to the amount of time the rivers are carrying flood water. The last river season for coarse fish (2019/20) has seen some rivers unfishable for 6 of the available 9 months, and now as flood waters recede, fishing them is banned due to an archaic byelaw which serves no useful purpose.
