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

What fish are in the Main Ottery?

Monitoring has recorded 14 species across 17 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.

  1. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar17 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta17 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio11 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus10 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula10 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  6. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri8 siteslatest 28 Jul 2025
  7. GraylingThymallus thymallus6 siteslatest 20 Jul 2021
  8. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 7 Jul 2010
  9. European eelAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2008
  10. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 10 Sept 2015
  11. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 20 Aug 2013
  12. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 7 Jul 2010
  13. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2015
  14. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 28 Jul 2008

Surveyed sites on this water

17 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