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Derwent fishing evidence · East Midlands

What fish are in the Derwent (East Midlands)?

Monitoring has recorded 32 species across 33 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 and 2025. 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

Derwent (East Midlands)

EA ecology area
East Midlands
Waterbody IDs
GB104028052310 · GB104028052390 · GB104028053240 · GB104028057880 · GB104028057960
Catchments
TRENT
02 · Survey breadth

33 sites · 147 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 8 Oct 2025

Within 2 years
5 sites
3–5 years
6 sites
6–10 years
3 sites
Older
19 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta18 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  2. ChubLeuciscus cephalus17 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  3. GraylingThymallus thymallus16 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  4. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus14 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  5. PerchPerca fluviatilis14 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  6. BarbelBarbus barbus13 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  7. BullheadCottus gobio12 siteslatest 19 Sept 2024
  8. GudgeonGobio gobio11 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  9. RoachRutilus rutilus10 siteslatest 25 Jul 2017
  10. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus9 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  11. PikeEsox lucius9 siteslatest 6 Sept 2018
  12. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula8 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  13. BleakAlburnus alburnus6 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  14. Common breamAbramis brama6 siteslatest 6 Sept 2009
  15. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 19 Sept 2024
  16. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 3 Oct 2016
  17. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss5 siteslatest 13 Sept 2018
  18. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  19. TenchTinca tinca4 siteslatest 3 Aug 2012
  20. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 13 Sept 2018
  21. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 25 Jul 2017
  22. Lampetra sp.Lampetra3 siteslatest 14 Sept 2022
  23. Spined loachCobitis taenia3 siteslatest 3 Aug 2012
  24. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 9 Sept 2007
  25. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus2 siteslatest 25 Jul 2017
  26. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna2 siteslatest 6 Sept 2009
  27. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 29 Apr 1993
  28. Brown / sea trout x brook trout hybridSalmo trutta x Salvelinus fontinalis1 sitelatest 28 May 2002
  29. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 16 Feb 1998
  30. Lampetra sp. > ammocoeteLampetra1 sitelatest 6 Sept 2018
  31. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 5 Aug 2010
  32. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 22 Apr 1993

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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