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Main River Axe fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

What fish are in the Main River Axe (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)?

Monitoring has recorded 26 species across 44 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 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.

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 River Axe (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)

EA ecology area
Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Waterbody IDs
GB108045008870 · GB108045014840 · GB109052021520 · GB109052021570
Catchments
Axe · Somerset Area
02 · Survey breadth

44 sites · 126 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 16 Oct 2025

Within 2 years
2 sites
3–5 years
15 sites
6–10 years
3 sites
Older
24 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. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula26 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio25 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  3. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta23 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla20 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  5. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus19 siteslatest 7 Jun 2024
  6. European elversAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 4 Jun 2024
  7. RoachRutilus rutilus17 siteslatest 4 Jul 2013
  8. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus16 siteslatest 8 Aug 2023
  9. European eelAnguilla anguilla16 siteslatest 7 Aug 2018
  10. GudgeonGobio gobio16 siteslatest 4 Jul 2013
  11. PikeEsox lucius14 siteslatest 4 Jul 2013
  12. ChubLeuciscus cephalus10 siteslatest 4 Jul 2013
  13. PerchPerca fluviatilis10 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  14. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus9 siteslatest 23 Aug 2011
  15. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar8 siteslatest 8 Aug 2023
  16. Common breamAbramis brama8 siteslatest 13 Jul 2010
  17. Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus7 siteslatest 27 Jul 2005
  18. FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 20 May 2024
  19. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae4 siteslatest 1 Jun 2023
  20. TenchTinca tinca3 siteslatest 30 May 2019
  21. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama2 siteslatest 17 Oct 2007
  22. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus2 siteslatest 17 Oct 2007
  23. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 13 Jul 2010
  24. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 18 May 2023
  25. Non-native species1 sitelatest 17 May 1991
  26. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 17 Oct 2007

Surveyed sites on this water

44 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
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