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Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Main Carey?

Monitoring has recorded 13 species across 13 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 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.

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 trutta13 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar12 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio6 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  5. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  6. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus5 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  7. European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 22 Jul 2013
  8. GraylingThymallus thymallus4 siteslatest 17 Jun 2022
  9. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  10. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 13 Jul 2010
  11. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 19 Jun 2012
  12. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 12 Jul 2016
  13. PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 1 Jul 2016

Surveyed sites on this water

13 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