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Great Stour - main river fishing evidence · Kent, South London and East Sussex

What fish are in the Great Stour - main river?

Monitoring has recorded 34 species across 23 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 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.

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

Great Stour - main river

EA ecology area
Kent, South London and East Sussex
Waterbody IDs
GB107040019600 · GB107040019620 · GB107040019660 · GB107040019741 · GB107040019742 · GB107040019743
Catchments
Great Stour
02 · Survey breadth

23 sites · 102 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 30 Jul 2024

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
6 sites
6–10 years
6 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. ChubLeuciscus cephalus20 siteslatest 30 Jul 2024
  2. GudgeonGobio gobio20 siteslatest 17 Jul 2024
  3. RoachRutilus rutilus19 siteslatest 17 Jul 2024
  4. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus17 siteslatest 17 Jul 2024
  5. PerchPerca fluviatilis17 siteslatest 30 Jul 2024
  6. PikeEsox lucius16 siteslatest 17 Jul 2024
  7. BullheadCottus gobio15 siteslatest 30 Jul 2024
  8. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla15 siteslatest 11 Jul 2024
  9. European eelAnguilla anguilla13 siteslatest 30 Jul 2024
  10. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula13 siteslatest 30 Jul 2024
  11. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta12 siteslatest 30 Jul 2024
  12. Pike varietiesEsox lucius10 siteslatest 4 Jul 2024
  13. Common breamAbramis brama7 siteslatest 4 Jul 2024
  14. TenchTinca tinca6 siteslatest 4 Jul 2024
  15. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus4 siteslatest 11 Jun 2015
  16. Common carp varietiesCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 28 Apr 2010
  17. FlounderPlatichthys flesus3 siteslatest 29 Sept 2009
  18. Lampetra sp.Lampetra3 siteslatest 18 Jun 2024
  19. BleakAlburnus alburnus2 siteslatest 11 Sept 2007
  20. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 9 Jun 2015
  21. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2018
  22. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 9 Jun 2015
  23. Rudd varietiesScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 5 Sept 2007
  24. Tench varietiesTinca tinca2 siteslatest 21 May 2009
  25. BarbelBarbus barbus1 sitelatest 21 Jun 2006
  26. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 22 Apr 2010
  27. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 22 May 2009
  28. Freshwater species1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2002
  29. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2009
  30. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 17 Jul 2024
  31. Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2018
  32. Roach x dace hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 27 Sept 2017
  33. Roach x silver bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 23 Aug 2002
  34. Thick lipped grey mulletChelon labrosus1 sitelatest 30 Sept 2009

Surveyed sites on this water

23 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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