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This is usually to check licence details when an angler cannot locate their licence on the bankside, or if the officer is not satisfied with the licence evidence presented.

As a group, the officers make hundreds of calls to ICS each month. The service has the ability to check the angler database on an Enforcement Officer’s behalf. The app was developed to reduce thousands of lengthy calls to the Incident Communication Service (ICS). Made possible by rod licence fees, the Environment Agency worked with us to build the ‘Check Fishing Licences’ app. In fact, last year the Environment Agency concluded 726 successful prosecutions generating over £100,000 in fines from anglers fishing illegally. Last year enforcement officers checked around 40,000 licences resulting in hundreds of unlicensed anglers being prosecuted.

Service Manager Joe Simpson explains how Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officers (FEOs) have been making leaps and bounds in licence checking, thanks to a new app designed and built by Defra’s ‘I Want to Fish’ digital team.

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