{"id":5673,"date":"2013-10-29T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/10\/29\/new-enforcement-boat-for-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:55:36","slug":"new-enforcement-boat-for-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/new-enforcement-boat-for-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"New enforcement boat for UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 14-foot long boat will be used to tackle illegal fishing across the Anglian region.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley Robertson, environmental crime team leader, said: \u201c<i>Melusina<\/i> is a fantastic asset for the Region. Our Fisheries Enforcement Officers patrol the watercourses all year round, including holidays and weekends. <i>Melusina<\/i> will allow them to regularly visit the upper reaches and more remote areas of navigable watercourses across Anglian Region to tackle illegal fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Melusina<\/i> was taken out by officers last week, who carried out a mock exercise to retrieve nets on Wroxham Broad.<\/p>\n<p>The boat is named after a European figure of legends and folklore, a feminine spirit of freshwaters and rivers named <i>Melusina<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Environment Agency has taken its new enforcement boat \u2018Melusina\u2019 out on its maiden voyage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}