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Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Hayle?

Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 1977 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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta9 siteslatest 17 Jun 2025
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 8 Jun 2005
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  4. European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 30 May 2017
  5. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 30 Sept 1977
  6. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss2 siteslatest 11 Oct 1983
  7. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 29 Aug 2002

Surveyed sites on this water

9 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