Current Cases

Fish Legal has more than 80 cases ongoing, acting for Fish Legal members throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We have listed below a selection, which is regularly updated. We are also dealing with hundreds of advice matters on behalf of our members on issues relating to angling and water law including: incorporation, bailiffing, canoeists, bulls in fields, excessive weed growth, loss of fishing rights, poaching and many, many more...

Current Cases

For details of our current cases in different regions click on the links below:

LakeScotland

Loch Ewe/Loch Maree - salmon farming and sea lice
River Spey - hydro-electric scheme
Loch Shin - fish farm escapees and expanding operations
Logan Water - silt pollution
Loch and River Awe - rainbow trout escapees
River Bladnoch - forestry and acidification of the headwaters
River Ericht - overabstraction
Broad Bay, Isle of Lewis - salmon farm proposal
River Shin - hydroscheme
Reintroduction of beavers






Welsh LakeWales

Llyn Padarn - algal blooms and loss of habitat for Arctic charr
River Rhymney - chemical pollution
Rivers Llugwy and Conwy - ongoing sewage pollution













Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland

Shimna at FoFanny - chemical pollution
Moyola Weir - barrier to passage of fish
River Lagan - chemical pollution; unlawful removal of gravels and unlawful canal development
Six Mile Water - siltation and chemical pollution











Midlands Midlands & East Anglia

Ivel Navigation - bank collapse
Shropshire Union and Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal - chemical pollution
River Lugg SSSI - unlawful in-river works
Derbyshire Derwent - lagoon failure and catastrophic sediment pollution










River Colne and Huddesfield Canal - chemical pollution 
Williamthorpe Pond - sewage pollution
River Trent - cyanide pollution
Lune bypass - bridge construction and fishing rights
Derwent - chemical pollution
Costa Beck - multiple impacts
Red House Gill - sedimentation
Ribble CAMS - over-abstraction and low flows
River Ellen - chemical pollution
Tees Barrage - ineffective fish pass
Three Pools - raw sewage pollution
Eamont - Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO)




Southern England Southern England

River Test at Stockbridge - decline in fly life and reduced clarity of the waters
North Lake - diesel leak
River Coln - chemical pollution
Colliford Reservoir - construction affecting a hatchery
River Avon - artificial variable flow
Wylye and Till - overabstraction and low flow
Eastbrookend Country Park - water mains leak