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East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Heacham?

Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1989 and 2017. 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. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 9 Feb 2017
  2. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 9 Feb 2017
  3. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta7 siteslatest 9 Feb 2017
  4. FlounderPlatichthys flesus3 siteslatest 19 May 2008
  5. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius2 siteslatest 17 Apr 2015
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 15 Mar 2011
  7. RoachRutilus rutilus1 sitelatest 26 May 2015
  8. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 15 Apr 1996

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