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Bridgwater / Taunton Canal fishing evidence · Wessex

What fish are in the Bridgwater / Taunton Canal?

Monitoring has recorded 14 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 and 1994. 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

Bridgwater / Taunton Canal

EA ecology area
Wessex
Waterbody IDs
GB108052015460 · GB108052015482 · GB108052015500 · GB108052021280 · GB108052021310 · GB108052021360
Catchments
Somerset Area
02 · Survey breadth

11 sites · 11 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 19 May 1994

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
11 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. European eelAnguilla anguilla11 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  2. PikeEsox lucius11 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  3. RoachRutilus rutilus11 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  4. Common breamAbramis brama10 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  5. Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus9 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  6. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus7 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  7. TenchTinca tinca7 siteslatest 18 May 1994
  8. GudgeonGobio gobio6 siteslatest 11 May 1994
  9. PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  10. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 5 May 1994
  11. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama2 siteslatest 19 May 1994
  12. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 17 May 1994
  13. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 26 Apr 1994
  14. Tench varietiesTinca tinca1 sitelatest 27 Apr 1994

Surveyed sites on this water

11 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