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

What fish are in the Main Claw?

Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 and 2022. 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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar9 siteslatest 9 Jun 2022
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 9 Jun 2022
  3. BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 9 Jun 2022
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus4 siteslatest 9 Jun 2022
  5. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 15 Jun 2010
  6. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 9 Jun 2022
  7. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 9 Jun 2022
  8. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 7 Jun 2016

Surveyed sites on this water

11 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