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

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.

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 trutta9 siteslatest 18 May 2018
  2. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 22 May 2012
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 16 Sept 2008
  4. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 18 May 2018
  5. PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 21 May 2012

Surveyed sites on this water

9 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