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Main Avon Sites fishing evidence · Wessex

What fish are in the Main Avon Sites (Wessex)?

Monitoring has recorded 33 species across 53 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

Main Avon Sites (Wessex)

EA ecology area
Wessex
Waterbody IDs
GB108043015750 · GB108043015840 · GB108043015880 · GB108043022350 · GB108043022370
Catchments
Avon (Hampshire)
02 · Survey breadth

53 sites · 238 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 14 Oct 2025

Within 2 years
12 sites
3–5 years
19 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
21 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 trutta45 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar43 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla35 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus33 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  5. GraylingThymallus thymallus30 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  6. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus29 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  7. BullheadCottus gobio28 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  8. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula28 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  9. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus27 siteslatest 25 Sept 2025
  10. PikeEsox lucius27 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  11. GudgeonGobio gobio25 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  12. BarbelBarbus barbus21 siteslatest 8 Oct 2025
  13. RoachRutilus rutilus20 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  14. PerchPerca fluviatilis14 siteslatest 14 Aug 2024
  15. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus11 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  16. European eelAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  17. Common breamAbramis brama7 siteslatest 11 May 2011
  18. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss5 siteslatest 9 May 2011
  19. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio4 siteslatest 23 May 2007
  20. FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 15 Aug 2024
  21. Pike varietiesEsox lucius4 siteslatest 13 Sept 2017
  22. TenchTinca tinca4 siteslatest 19 Aug 2014
  23. Lampetra sp.Lampetra3 siteslatest 14 Aug 2024
  24. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra3 siteslatest 16 Aug 2023
  25. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 5 Jun 2007
  26. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 10 Sept 2014
  27. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2022
  28. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 11 May 2011
  29. Sea bassDicentrarchus labrax1 sitelatest 18 May 2004
  30. Sea lampreyPetromyzon marinus1 sitelatest 11 May 2011
  31. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 15 May 2008
  32. Thick lipped grey mulletChelon labrosus1 sitelatest 1 May 2007
  33. Thin lipped grey mulletLiza ramada1 sitelatest 11 May 2011

Surveyed sites on this water

53 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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