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2026
- More than four in ten of Europe’s freshwater fish species at risk of extinction, new Red List warns
- Environment Agency and IFM Delivers Free Stillwater Management Training to Support Resilient Fisheries
- Celebrating Trusted Professionals: Chartered Week 2026
- IFM Response to the governments Water White Paper, a new vision for water.
- Peter Spillett Memorial Award
- Small Fry
2025
- Letter to MP's on BNG requirements for small sites
- Annual Wildlife Crime Report
- Environmental Development Plans: a precautionary approach for species
- DEFENDING THE PROTECTED LANDSCAPES DUTY
- IFM response to MMO MPA Fisheries Management Stage 3 Consultation
- Salmon Stock Assessment 2024
- Institute of Fisheries Management and Clubmate Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Fisheries Across the UK
- 56th Annual General Meeting of the IFM
- Net Zero Week in Parliament
- Pledge to Net Zero releases annual report on members’ progress tackling GHG emissions
- Report of NASCO Annual meeting, 2-6 June 2025
- Crucians, biology, ecology, angling and culture
- RESPONSE TO WATER COMMISSION CALL FOR EVIDENCE
- IFM Response to the Land Use Consultation
- Action is urgently needed to protect and restore Northern Ireland’s ‘natural treasures,’ says OEP report
- Nature groups welcome wildlife safeguards in planning proposals
- Letter to Prime Minister and Chancellor on the value of nature
- Over half a million fish produced in 2024 for national restocking
- Office for Environmental Protection’s report on progress towards environmental goals
- Definition of Favourable Conservation Status for European sturgeon, Acipenser sturio L. and Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus M.
- Office for Environmental Protection
2024
- A New CEO for the IFM
- Fish continue to flourish in saltmarsh habitat
- The Charter for Small Waters
- EA partnerships drive £22.5m licence income further to enhance fisheries and promote angling
- Take a Friend Fishing
- Ministerial appreciation for 20 years of invaluable Chartered Environmentalists
- Wildlife Crime Report 2024
- Immediate Actions to Restore the Water Environment
- 30 x 30 in England
- Salmon stocks in England and Wales lowest on record
- Fisheries Field Monitoring Accreditation Scheme
- New Accreditation Scheme Enhances Freshwater Fishery Field Monitoring Standards
- IFM Writes to the New Fishery Ministers
- New citizen science data reveals trends in UK sea angling participation and catches from 2016 to 2021.
- 55th Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Fisheries Management
- IFM REPORT on NASCO ANNUAL MEETING, 3-7th JUNE 2024
- Position statement on the UK General Election, 2024
- The Environmental Policy Forum sets out priorities for the next UK Government
- POSITION STATEMENT ON SALMON FARMING IN THE UK AND IRELAND
- A new acting CEO for the IFM
- Peter Spillett Memorial Award
- IFM POSITION STATEMENT ON LOUGH NEAGH
- A new statutory requirement for access to and engagement with nature within education
- IFM Submission to the Hinkley Point C Development Consent Order
- GREEN’ ENERGY AT WHAT COST? HINKLEY POINT C COULD COST US THE SEVERN
- IFM Relaunches the Fisheries Careers Guide
- National Angling Strategy Annual Report 2022-2023
- IFM Director of Policy joins the OEP College of Experts
2023
- Environment Agency FISHERIES ANNUAL REPORT 2022-23
- Freshwater fish highlight escalating climate impacts on species, IUCN Red List
- IFM response to the High Court ruling for Fish Legal and Pickering Fishery Association
- Presentations from the Fish Impingement & Entrainment Conference, Liverpool July 2023
- Native Fish Extinction Fears
- Nature 2030: A Plan for the Marine Environment
- Results of latest report into UK salmon stocks now published
- Amendments to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Nutrient Neutrality)
- Nature 2030 Minifesto: Freshwater
- Fisheries in Focus, A podcast from the IFM
- Fishing for Good
- EA FISHERIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021-22
- Thames Rivers Trust Peter Spillett Award
- Saving Britain’s royal fish
- POSITION STATEMENT ON ATLANTIC SALMON CONSERVATION
- Atlantic Salmon in Crisis
- Volunteers Wanted for new Catchwise Survey
- OEP welcomes draft ammonia strategy for NI but identifies areas for improvementHero header
- SHOAL, THE FRESHWATER FISH SPECIES DESCRIBED IN 2022
- Next steps for UK fisheries, trade, opportunities, policy, sustainability and support
- Rivers & Wetlands Community Days 2023
- Environment Agency Fisheries Annual Report 2021-2022
- 2023 SocEnv Awards: Highlight an Outstanding Environmental Professional
- Complaint to the Office for Environmental Protection
2022
- IFM Scotland Branch Water Bailiff of the Year Award
- Coarse Fish Conference
- Wildlife Crime Report 2021
- Peter Spillett Award
- ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022
- Hoveton Great Broad, fish barrier plan dropped
- First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to their breeding place in the Sargasso Sea
- New pollution prevention advice for fishing communities
- Pink salmon, should we be worried?
- OPEN LETTER FROM EPF TO PM RE ATTACK ON NATURE
- IFM Appoints Training Coordinator
- Open letter to PM on environmental deregulation
- Hero headWorld Fish Migration Day Report
- IFM Annual General Meeting
- Planning Inspectorate decides against Hinkley C appeal for fish screening
- River-flow rates in England at lowest point since 2002, data shows
- IFM Report of the 39th NASCO Meeting
- Chemical Pollution
- Wildlife under stress as dry spell shrinks rivers
- IFM appoints a new Policy Director
- IFM and Catch Fishery Survey
- IFM and Catch Launch Strategic Partnership
- Fisheries conservation organisations ask the government to review beaver protection
- NGOs submit their comments on the performance review of NASCO
- 53rd Annual Conference, Call for Papers
- IFM continues to seek charitable status
- IFM Response to the North East Coast Net Limitation Order Review
- FISH 2022 Issue 2 now out
- Fantastic Freshwater report released
- Open Letter to COP15
- Meningitis killed Greenland shark found off coast of Cornwall, postmortem shows
- Society for the Environment (SocEnv) unveils new visual identity and website
- Save the Sturgeon on Radio Scotland
- Save The Sturgeon: How the public can help Britain's Critically Endangered 'Dinosaur fish'
- Eel project highlights the value of citizen science
- The Government has been given a comprehensive plan to tackle wildlife crime, will it implement it?
- FISH 2022 Issue 1 Out Now
- The Fishing Industry Request Scientific Support
- We need nature everywhere for everyone
- SCIENTISTS IN SUPPORT FOR AN AMBITIOUS EU NATURE RESTORATION LAW
- Government Water Statement must overhaul ‘creaking and leaking’ sewage infrastructure
- David Bunt appointed the first Chief Executive of the IFM
- Open NGO letter responding to 7th QQR consultation.
- World Fish Migration Day 2022
- Peter Spillett BSc MSc PhD FIFM CEnv
- Next Steps for UK Fisheries
- Scottish Wild Salmon Strategy Launch
- Water pollution: How clean are the UK's rivers and lakes?
2021
- Exciting opportunity to manage inshore fisheries and conservation (IFCA)
- Minutes of the 52nd Institute AGM
- Is a European "eel deal" the only way to save this endangered species?
- Make Your Catch Count, Count Your Catch!
- IFM Response to the Defra Beaver Consultation
- Wildlife Crime in 2020
- THE STATE OF THE THAMES 2021
- Statement of World Aquatic Scientific Societies on the Need to Take Urgent Action against Human-Caused Climate Change, Based on Scientific Evidence
- Norway reveals plans for river trap system to protect wild salmon
- Environmental regulators to proceed with controversial fish barriers in the Norfolk Broads
- 52nd Annual General Meeting
- Time to fix the broken water sector
- Troubled Waters
- English waters among the least healthy in Europe, and climate change will make this worse
- IFM and the Society of the Environment Webinar
- Climate-smart fisheries can change the fate of our seas
- Angling Trust and Environment Agency announce £50,000 fund to help angling clubs and fisheries protect waters from invasive species and diseases
- Eel Appeal, A new citizen science project needs you!
- Salmon & Trout Conservation’s Parliamentary Petition “Give the Environment Agency the funds and freedom to protect English rivers
- IFM Report on the 2021 NASCO Meeting
- WORLD OCEAN DAY, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, NEW SCIENTIFIC TRACKING PROJECT LAUNCHES
- Environment Agency delivers £1.3 million boost to England’s fisheries
- Doing its Job.
- Will the “Marine Super Year” bring a wave of successes for nature?
- Seagrass that stores 35 times more carbon than rainforests being planted off Devon coast
- HALF A MILLION EURO DONATION FOR SCALING UP DAM REMOVAL IN EUROPE
- 2021 SocEnv Awards
- Spawning Brook lamprey footage
- Supporting CPD within JBA, The IFM Certificate Course
- Results of Voting on Changes to IFM Rules
- The effects of COVID-19 on freshwaters
- Joint Fisheries Conservation NGO Position Statement on Eurasian Beaver Reintroduction into England and Wales.
- Call for nature's recovery by 2030
- Welsh Rivers, Control of Agricultural Pollution Regulations
- GAIL DAVIES-WALSH NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF AFONYDD CYMRU
- IFM and FSBI to form Close Working Partnership
- Next steps for UK fisheries, trade, opportunities, policy, sustainability and support
2020
- Canal and River Trust. Fisheries and Angling Advisory Group. New Members Wanted
- IFM Scotland Branch AGM
- Sturgeon in the press
- Flagship Fisheries Bill becomes law
- 30 by 30: Land for Nature’s Recovery
- Fish Legal forces Environment Agency to back down over Hoveton Great Broad fish barriers
- Wildlife Crime Report 2020
- Recording of the 51st AGM of the Institute
- Hinkley Point C: Screening for Cooling Water Intake
- Vice President of the Institute becomes MBE in Queens Birthday Honours List
- Interested in becoming a Chartered member?
- Fishery groups raise concerns over impacts on migratory salmonids from future beaver releases
- Official figures reveal not one river or lake in England is in good health
- 51st AGM of the Institute of Fisheries Management
- World’s Leading Aquatic Scientific Societies Urgently Call for Cuts to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Environment Agency ignores its own experts trying to protect vital fish spawning grounds in the Norfolk Broads
- Simon McKelvey Training Scholarship
- Environment Agency’s National Fish Farm restocks record-breaking weight of fish
- Dr Stephen Marsh-Smith OBE
- IFM Writes to Sir James Bevan
- THE ROYAL FISH RETURNS
- IFM Photography Competition Results
- River Otter Beaver Trial Hailed a Success
- Environment Agency and Natural England condemned over wasting public money on a misguided scheme to stop fish spawning and destroy angling in the Norfolk Broads
- AMBER Project Barrier Atlas
- Massive decline in migratory freshwater fish populations could threaten livelihoods of millions warns new report.
- 2020 NASCO Report
- IFM Survey 2019/20, Short report on the findings
- IFM position on the Fisheries Bill
- Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation
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