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Main Meavy fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

What fish are in the Main Meavy?

Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 16 surveyed sites on this water, between 1982 and 2026. 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.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

Main Meavy

EA ecology area
Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Waterbody IDs
GB108047003660
Catchments
Plym
02 · Survey breadth

16 sites · 153 events

7 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 4 Jun 2026

Within 2 years
3 sites
3–5 years
5 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
8 sites

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 trutta16 siteslatest 4 Jun 2026
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar14 siteslatest 10 Jul 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla12 siteslatest 28 Jul 2011
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 4 Jun 2026
  5. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 10 Jul 2025
  6. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 10 Jul 2025
  7. BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 11 Jul 2019

Surveyed sites on this water

16 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