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Lymington fishing evidence · Solent and South Downs

What fish are in the Lymington?

Monitoring has recorded 20 species across 38 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.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

Lymington

EA ecology area
Solent and South Downs
Waterbody IDs
GB107042011220 · GB107042011360 · GB107042016710 · GB107042016720
Catchments
New Forest
02 · Survey breadth

38 sites · 128 events

20 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 17 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
15 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
3 sites
Older
20 sites

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 trutta38 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio34 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  3. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus32 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  4. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula31 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  5. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri21 siteslatest 3 Jul 2023
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla21 siteslatest 18 Jul 2025
  7. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae12 siteslatest 29 Jul 2005
  8. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri11 siteslatest 17 Sept 2025
  9. ChubLeuciscus cephalus10 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  10. PikeEsox lucius10 siteslatest 11 Jul 2019
  11. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae8 siteslatest 11 Jul 2017
  12. RoachRutilus rutilus5 siteslatest 6 Aug 2013
  13. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus4 siteslatest 28 Aug 2009
  14. GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 18 Jul 2025
  15. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae4 siteslatest 18 May 2006
  16. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 1 Sept 2008
  17. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 6 Aug 2013
  18. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2003
  19. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2007
  20. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2001

Surveyed sites on this water

38 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
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