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

What fish are in the Main Plym?

Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 13 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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar11 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta11 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 28 Jul 2011
  4. BullheadCottus gobio7 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  6. European elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  7. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus3 siteslatest 4 Jul 2025
  8. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 4 Jul 2025
  9. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 20 Jun 2025
  10. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 7 Jun 2007

Surveyed sites on this water

13 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