{"id":85430,"date":"2025-08-22T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85430\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:41:07","slug":"boat-owners-fined-as-river-thames-crackdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85430\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat owners fined as River Thames crackdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One boater was given a \u00a31,800 fine, which the government body called a &#8220;stark warning&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said every owner caught up in its December 2023 operation was traced and given ample opportunity to register their boats correctly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colin Chiverton, EA environment manager, said: &#8220;Our enforcement officers have no love, secret or otherwise, for unregistered boats on the Thames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re out all year long patrolling the river, checking valid registrations and taking action against those who cheat their fellow boaters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Chiverton warned the agency would bring further offenders to court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The EA said boat registration fees allowed it to manage and maintain more than 600 miles of inland waterways across England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It likened the fee to excise duty for cars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One boater was given a \u00a31,800 fine, which the government body called a &#8220;stark warning&#8221;. The EA said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-85430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}