Summary and Background Part 7: Fisheries Supplementary Section 230: Duties of the Environment Agency
607.Section 6(6) of the Environment Act 1995 requires the Environment Agency to maintain, improve and develop salmon fisheries, trout fisheries, freshwater fisheries and eel fisheries.
608.This section extends the duty to lampreys and smelt fisheries, and fisheries of other specified fish (by order under section 40A of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975).