Main Barnstaple Yeo
- EA ecology area
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108050019960 · GB108050019990
- Catchments
- Taw
Main Barnstaple Yeo fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
What fish are in the Main Barnstaple Yeo?
Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 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.
4 sites · 16 events
10 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 19 Aug 2025
- Within 2 years
- 2 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 2 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
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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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta4 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 6 Sept 2022
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 31 Jul 2012
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 12 Sept 2023
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2021
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 19 Aug 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
4 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