Wessex · Environment Agency surveys
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.
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.
- European eelAnguilla anguilla11 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- PikeEsox lucius11 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- RoachRutilus rutilus11 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- Common breamAbramis brama10 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus9 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus7 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- TenchTinca tinca7 siteslatest 18 May 1994
- GudgeonGobio gobio6 siteslatest 11 May 1994
- PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 5 May 1994
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama2 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 17 May 1994
- Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 26 Apr 1994
- Tench varietiesTinca tinca1 sitelatest 27 Apr 1994
Surveyed sites on this water
11 shown, newest survey first
Bowerings
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 19 May 1994
Stock Moor Rhyne
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 18 May 1994
D/S King's Lock
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 17 May 1994
Coxland
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 12 May 1994
Fordgate
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 11 May 1994
D/S Lower Maunsel Lock
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 5 May 1994
Outwood
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 4 May 1994
Charlton
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 27 Apr 1994
U/S Creech
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 26 Apr 1994
Hyde Lane
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 21 Apr 1994
U/S Maiden Brook
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 20 Apr 1994
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