Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Main Lyd (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)?
Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 21 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar20 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta19 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio15 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla12 siteslatest 24 Aug 2010
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla12 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula11 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus8 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri6 siteslatest 2 Sept 2010
- GraylingThymallus thymallus6 siteslatest 7 Jul 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 21 Sept 2021
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 23 Jun 2008
- Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 17 Aug 2011
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 17 Aug 2011
Surveyed sites on this water
21 shown, newest survey first
Lifton Playing Field
- Survey events
- 26
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 8 Sept 2025
Lydford Gorge
- Survey events
- 30
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2025
Greenlanes
- Survey events
- 31
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 11 Aug 2025
Spry Farm
- Survey events
- 33
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 6 Aug 2025
u/s Gatherley
- Survey events
- 25
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 7 Jul 2025
Sydenham
- Survey events
- 34
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 27 Jun 2025
Lyd Confluence
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 11 Aug 2023
D/S Greenlanes
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2023
D/S Coryton Mill
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2023
U/S Spry Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2023
Warren Wood
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2023
D/S Lifton Playing Field
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 14 Jul 2023
U/S Sydenham
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 20 Jun 2023
Lifton Park
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2021
Coryton Bridge
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2021
Colemans Farm
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 24 Sept 2008
d/s Kit Steps
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2006
Ambrosia Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2005
Langham
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 Sept 2001
Sydenham lower gravel retention
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 27 Jun 1996
Sydenham upper gravel retention
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 24 Jun 1996
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