Petition · past parliament · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Make the removal of coarse fish illegal from rivers and waterways

Closed 251 signatures

What the petition asks

Update laws to preserve the current fish in UK rivers and waterways, by changing legislation so it would be an illegal act to remove fish from a river or waterway.
Therefore preserving the current fish stock and allowing the rivers and local environments to recover from the amount of fish that have been removed in recent times.

Timeline

13 Apr 2021 Petition opened for signatures
13 Oct 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 251
Status Closed
Department Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Opened 13 Apr 2021
Closed 13 Oct 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.