Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Main East Dart?
Monitoring has recorded 4 species across 9 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.
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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta9 siteslatest 21 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar8 siteslatest 21 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 21 Jul 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 19 Jul 2024
Surveyed sites on this water
9 shown, newest survey first
U/s Postbridge (Te)
- Survey events
- 21
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2025
D/s Dartmeet Bridge (Dip/5 min)
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 19 Jul 2024
Bellever (Dip/5 min)
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 16 Jul 2024
Laughter Hole (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 13 Sept 2023
U/S Postbridge (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2023
Brimpts wood (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2023
D/S Waterfall (SAC)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 24 Sept 2008
U/s Island (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2005
U/s Waterfall (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2005
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