Solent and South Downs · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Itchen Navigation (Solent and South Downs)?
Monitoring has recorded 19 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 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.
- European eelAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- PikeEsox lucius4 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- RoachRutilus rutilus4 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar3 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis3 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus2 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 30 Aug 2023
- GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 27 Oct 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 30 Aug 2023
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 2 Sept 2019
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 27 Oct 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 27 Oct 2025
- Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2004
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 30 Aug 2023
- Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 20 Oct 2003
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 27 Oct 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Ham Farm
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 17
- Latest survey
- 27 Oct 2025
Shawford navigation eel index
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2009
Allbrook Lock
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2006
Tun Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 2006
Riverside Park
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 20 Sept 2005
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