East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Blackwater (Yare)?
Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 2006 and 2014. These are survey records with dates. They do not establish what is present today, that the water is fishable, or that you have permission to fish it.
Recorded species
What monitoring has found here
Ordered by how many sites on this water recorded the species. A species not listed has not been recorded by these surveys — which is not the same as being absent.
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus7 siteslatest 2 Feb 2012
- BullheadCottus gobio7 siteslatest 2 Dec 2014
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula7 siteslatest 2 Dec 2014
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius6 siteslatest 11 Jan 2012
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 2 Dec 2014
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta2 siteslatest 2 Dec 2014
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 2 Dec 2014
- PerchPerca fluviatilis2 siteslatest 13 Jan 2012
- RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 13 Jan 2012
- GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 1 Dec 2006
Surveyed sites on this water
9 shown, newest survey first
Hardingham Grove
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 2 Dec 2014
Garvestone, Tanners Lane Ford
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 2 Feb 2012
Reymerston, Bridge Farm
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 13 Jan 2012
Southburgh, d/s White Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 11 Jan 2012
Thuxton, d/s Railway Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 11 Jan 2012
Cranworth, Gurdon Plantation bridleway
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 9 Jan 2012
Shipdham, Hall Farm
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 9 Jan 2012
Cranworth, Lodge Plantation
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 24 Nov 2006
Whinburgh, Manor Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 22 Nov 2006
Provenance
Source and licence
- SourceEnvironment Agency Ecology & Fish Data
- LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Source copy retrieved23 Jul 2026
- Waterbody nameAs published by the Environment Agency
- Not assertedCurrent presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety