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Main Avill fishing evidence · Wessex

What fish are in the Main Avill?

Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 and 2015. 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

Main Avill

EA ecology area
Wessex
Waterbody IDs
GB108043016190 · GB108043022560 · GB108051020210
Catchments
Somerset Area
02 · Survey breadth

5 sites · 8 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 30 Apr 2015

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
5 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 trutta5 siteslatest 30 Apr 2015
  2. BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 30 Apr 2015
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 30 Apr 2015
  4. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 30 Apr 2015
  5. European glass eelsAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 10 Apr 2014
  6. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 30 Apr 2015
  7. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 30 Apr 2015
  8. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 29 Apr 2015
  9. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 11 Apr 2005
  10. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 29 Apr 2015

Surveyed sites on this water

5 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