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East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Elstow Brook?

Monitoring has recorded 19 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1989 and 2024. 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.

  1. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula8 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  2. ChubLeuciscus cephalus7 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  3. GudgeonGobio gobio7 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  5. BullheadCottus gobio6 siteslatest 14 Aug 2024
  6. RoachRutilus rutilus6 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  7. Spined loachCobitis taenia6 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  8. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 14 Aug 2024
  9. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  10. PerchPerca fluviatilis5 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  11. PikeEsox lucius5 siteslatest 6 May 2003
  12. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 3 Sept 2014
  13. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 6 May 2003
  14. TenchTinca tinca2 siteslatest 29 Aug 2024
  15. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 1 Aug 2013
  16. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 29 Aug 2024
  17. Common breamAbramis brama1 sitelatest 6 May 2003
  18. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 24 Mar 2011
  19. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 19 Apr 2006

Surveyed sites on this water

8 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