Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Main Fowey?
Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 21 surveyed sites on this water, between 1977 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 trutta21 siteslatest 30 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar20 siteslatest 19 Sept 2024
- BullheadCottus gobio19 siteslatest 30 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla16 siteslatest 19 Sept 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 1 Jul 2009
- European elversAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 15 Aug 2024
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 30 Jul 2025
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 19 Sept 2024
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 19 Sept 1979
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 8 Aug 2000
- Salmonid species2 siteslatest 24 Apr 1978
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 16 Sept 2024
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 31 Aug 2011
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2008
- Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 12 Sept 1997
Surveyed sites on this water
21 shown, newest survey first
Lower Langdon
- Survey events
- 33
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 30 Jul 2025
Palmersbridge
- Survey events
- 30
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 29 Jul 2025
Ashford Bridge
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2024
Draynes Bridge
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 16 Sept 2024
Leskernick
- Survey events
- 21
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 2024
Brown Queen
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 15 Aug 2024
Halfway
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 15 Aug 2024
Trezibbett
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 7 Aug 2024
Upstream Doublebois Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 6 Aug 2024
Doublebois
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 2014
Respryn Bridge
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 1 Sept 2011
Harrowbridge
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 25 Aug 2011
Treverbyn
- Survey events
- 25
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2010
Restormel
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 2008
Glynn
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 11 Aug 2005
Newbridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2005
Trengale Wood
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 22 Apr 2005
Codda
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2000
Lamelgate
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 8 Sept 1997
Ninestones Spawning Beds
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 14 Jun 1995
Westerlake Spawning Beds
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 14 Jun 1995
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