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Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Louth Canal?

Monitoring has recorded 23 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1986 and 2018. 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 aculeatus7 siteslatest 15 May 2018
  2. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 14 May 2018
  3. GudgeonGobio gobio7 siteslatest 14 May 2018
  4. RoachRutilus rutilus7 siteslatest 15 May 2018
  5. PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 15 May 2018
  6. Common breamAbramis brama5 siteslatest 15 May 2018
  7. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 14 May 2018
  8. PikeEsox lucius5 siteslatest 15 May 2018
  9. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama4 siteslatest 22 Jun 2015
  10. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus4 siteslatest 15 May 2018
  11. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus4 siteslatest 22 Jun 2015
  12. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna4 siteslatest 9 Aug 2012
  13. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 14 May 2018
  14. BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 25 Jun 2015
  15. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 14 May 2018
  16. TenchTinca tinca3 siteslatest 18 Jun 1999
  17. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius2 siteslatest 24 May 1999
  18. FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 17 Jun 2015
  19. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss2 siteslatest 25 Jun 2015
  20. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 21 May 2004
  21. Grass carpCtenopharyngodon idella1 sitelatest 13 May 2010
  22. Roach x silver bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 13 May 2010
  23. SpratSprattus sprattus1 sitelatest 8 Sept 1995

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