East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Granta?
Monitoring has recorded 16 species across 12 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 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.
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.
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus12 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta11 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio9 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus6 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula6 siteslatest 21 May 2025
- GudgeonGobio gobio5 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- RoachRutilus rutilus5 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus4 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 26 Apr 2016
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus3 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 26 Mar 2008
- PikeEsox lucius2 siteslatest 17 May 2022
- Spined loachCobitis taenia2 siteslatest 29 Oct 1993
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 12 May 2022
- PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 10 Jun 2025
- TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 10 Jun 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
12 shown, newest survey first
Great Shelford
- Survey events
- 9
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 10 Jun 2025
Babraham
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 21 May 2025
Babraham (I.A.P)
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 20 May 2025
Hildersham
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 14 May 2025
Barham Hall Linton
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 13 May 2025
Linton Gauging Station
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 23 May 2013
Church End Ashdon
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 21 Mar 2013
Granta Park
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 7 Oct 2011
Ashdon
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 8 Mar 2010
War Memorial Ashdon
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Mar 2010
Bartlow
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 25 Mar 2008
DS Hildersham
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 14 May 2003
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