The Environment Agency is reminding anglers of the importance of having a rod licence after a Leeds man was fined for fishing illegally. Benjamin Pollard, 31, of Langley Road in Leeds, was fined £266 and ordered to pay costs of £127 and a victim surcharge of £34. He pleaded guilty to fishing without a licence at Humber Magistrates’ Court on February 9. On 9 July 2021 an Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officer, who was on routine patrol in North Yorkshire, spoke to Pollard, who was found to be fishing without a licence at a popular fishing lake near Malton. Peter Mischenko, Fisheries O…