Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Environment Agency is taking to replenish fish stocks in Lancashire.

During the last two months the Environment Agency has stocked a number of Lancashire rivers with 19,000 coarse fish from the Environment Agency’s fish farm at Calverton, as follows:

• River Lostock: 1,000 Chub and 1,000 Dace

• River Ribble: 2,000 Chub and 1,500 Bream

• River Wyre: 2,000 Chub, 2,500 Dace, 1,500 Roach and 1,000 Bream

• River Lune: 2,500 Dace, 3,000 Roach and 1,000 Bream