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

What fish are in the Main Lynher?

Monitoring has recorded 11 species across 20 surveyed sites on this water, between 1982 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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta20 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar19 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 23 Aug 2019
  4. BullheadCottus gobio14 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla11 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
  6. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 1 Jul 2025
  7. European elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
  8. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 12 Aug 2010
  9. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 10 Sept 2024
  10. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 22 Sept 2008
  11. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2018

Surveyed sites on this water

20 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