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Blackwater fishing evidence · Solent and South Downs

What fish are in the Blackwater (Solent and South Downs)?

Monitoring has recorded 28 species across 33 surveyed sites on this water, between 1985 and 2026. 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.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

Blackwater (Solent and South Downs)

EA ecology area
Solent and South Downs
Waterbody IDs
GB106039017180 · GB106039017290 · GB106039017320 · GB107042016790 · GB107042016820
Catchments
River Loddon · Test
02 · Survey breadth

33 sites · 112 events

28 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 6 May 2026

Within 2 years
7 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
25 sites

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.

  1. RoachRutilus rutilus32 siteslatest 6 May 2026
  2. GudgeonGobio gobio28 siteslatest 6 May 2026
  3. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus27 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus26 siteslatest 6 May 2026
  5. PikeEsox lucius26 siteslatest 6 May 2026
  6. PerchPerca fluviatilis21 siteslatest 6 May 2026
  7. TenchTinca tinca10 siteslatest 6 May 2026
  8. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
  9. European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
  10. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama8 siteslatest 15 Sept 2022
  11. BarbelBarbus barbus7 siteslatest 8 Apr 2025
  12. BullheadCottus gobio6 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
  13. Common breamAbramis brama6 siteslatest 15 Sept 2022
  14. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula6 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
  15. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 26 Apr 2022
  16. GraylingThymallus thymallus4 siteslatest 15 Sept 2022
  17. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus4 siteslatest 28 Sept 2021
  18. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 23 Apr 2026
  19. BleakAlburnus alburnus2 siteslatest 18 May 2016
  20. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 29 Sept 2023
  21. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 19 Sept 2024
  22. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
  23. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 26 Mar 2003
  24. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 30 Aug 2006
  25. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 15 Sept 2006
  26. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 16 Sept 2025
  27. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 2 Apr 2012
  28. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 28 Apr 2006

Surveyed sites on this water

33 shown, newest survey first

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
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