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Changes to the planning system pose a huge threat to wild fish. Find out about our latest campaign to ensure the government deliver a planning solution that protects wild fish.
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Understanding Water Stress

Many of our rivers no longer have enough water to support healthy ecosystems or dilute pollution effectively. Learn more in our latest report that highlights the growing pressures on UK rivers caused by water abstraction.
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Salmon has become one of the most popular dishes in restaurants and at home, but its popularity has come at a cost for the environment, fish welfare and the health of the planet.
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Protect Wild Fish from Planning Changes

Changes to the planning system pose a huge threat to wild fish. Find out about our latest campaign to ensure the government deliver a planning solution that protects wild fish.
Find out more

Understanding Water Stress

Many of our rivers no longer have enough water to support healthy ecosystems or dilute pollution effectively. Learn more in our latest report that highlights the growing pressures on UK rivers caused by water abstraction.
The Abstraction Report

Wild fish don't have a voice but we do.

Click subscribe and we'll email you with crucial actions you can take to help reverse the flood of environmental devastation facing our rivers and oceans.
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Do you know what's on your plate?

Salmon has become one of the most popular dishes in restaurants and at home, but its popularity has come at a cost for the environment, fish welfare and the health of the planet.
Take Farmed Salmon Off the table Today

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10.07.25

Chalkstream designation: WildFish proposes a simple solution to give our chalk streams the legal protection they need to survive

Everyone seems to agree that our chalk streams deserve to be conserved. They host a globally rare ecosystem and the UK has a near-monopoly - 85% of them. And we have been campaigning for their…
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09.07.25

Wildfish tells government to use current law to bring in protections for England’s chalk streams

This week, WildFish has written to the Secretary of State to highlight the urgent, ongoing crisis facing England’s rare chalk s...
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08.07.25

WildFish to prioritise work on veterinary medicines and pesticides

It has become clearer over the years that the risks to aquatic ecology in UK freshwaters from pesticide and veterinary medicine...
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02.07.25

Defra publishes new Statutory Guidance for farmers covering muck spreading but does it make any difference to enforcement and regulation?

Back in 2022, WildFish challenged the Guidance issued by the Secretary of State relating to the implementation of the Reduction...
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30.06.25

More than a single river journey: science reveals salmon navigate a whole network of waterways to complete their epic migration

The life of an Atlantic salmon is an odyssey. Born in freshwater rivers, they migrate to the sea to grow on a rich ocean diet. ...
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23.06.25

Legal Update – June 2025

Here is what our legal team have been working on in May and June and what’s coming soon.  Pesticides used in farming – how muc...
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16.06.25

There may be a drought coming: water companies need to act now

Water scarcity is becoming more and more common with increasingly persistent droughts, especially in the south of England. W...
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Open-Net Salmon Farming
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Save Atlantic Salmon
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Freshwater Invertebrate Image Library
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SmartRivers
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Environment Agency Report
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Riverfly Census
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Water Supply
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Agricultural Pollution
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Chemical Pollution
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The Bakkavör Story
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Chalk Streams

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