Main Cober
- EA ecology area
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108048001171 · GB108048001172
- Catchments
- Coastal Streams
Main Cober fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
What fish are in the Main Cober?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 1986 and 2018. 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.
9 sites · 18 events
5 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 18 May 2018
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 2 sites
- Older
- 7 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 trutta9 siteslatest 18 May 2018
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 22 May 2012
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 16 Sept 2008
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 18 May 2018
- PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 21 May 2012
Surveyed sites on this water
9 shown, newest survey first
Boscodjack
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 18 May 2018
Poldark Mine
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 May 2018
St. Johns
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 May 2012
Trenear Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 Jun 2006
Lower Nancelloe
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Oct 1986
Lower Town
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 1986
Burras
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 3 Sept 1986
Coverack Bridges
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 2 Sept 1986
Porkellis Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 1 Sept 1986
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