Norfolk Broads fish barriers face legal challenge

Acting on behalf of the Angling Trust and the Broads Angling Services Group solicitors at Fish Legal issued a legal challenge against the decision by the Environment Agency and Natural England to press ahead with plans to install fish barriers to block off vital spawning grounds in Norfolk’s Hoveton Great Broad. Top fisheries scientists at the Institute of Fisheries Management who formally reviewed the project came to the same conclusions as the Environment Agency’s own fisheries experts judging the barriers to be potentially harmful and recommending that they should not proceed.