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Solent and South Downs · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Itchen (Solent and South Downs)?

Monitoring has recorded 26 species across 46 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 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 trutta42 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar32 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio31 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  4. European eelAnguilla anguilla31 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  5. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus28 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  6. GraylingThymallus thymallus25 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  7. PikeEsox lucius23 siteslatest 29 Aug 2025
  8. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula19 siteslatest 4 Sept 2025
  9. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri15 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  10. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus14 siteslatest 5 Sept 2025
  11. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 19 Oct 2024
  12. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri8 siteslatest 22 Sept 2023
  13. ChubLeuciscus cephalus7 siteslatest 7 Sept 2023
  14. GudgeonGobio gobio7 siteslatest 7 Sept 2023
  15. RoachRutilus rutilus6 siteslatest 22 Aug 2019
  16. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 30 Aug 2023
  17. PerchPerca fluviatilis4 siteslatest 3 Sept 2019
  18. BarbelBarbus barbus2 siteslatest 29 Aug 2023
  19. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar2 siteslatest 29 Aug 2023
  20. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 21 Sept 2006
  21. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2009
  22. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 16 Sept 2019
  23. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 31 Aug 2010
  24. Sea lamprey ammocoetesPetromyzon marinus1 sitelatest 16 Sept 2019
  25. TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2009
  26. Tench varietiesTinca tinca1 sitelatest 31 Aug 2010

Surveyed sites on this water

46 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