Main River Barle
- EA ecology area
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Waterbody IDs
- GB108045015060 · GB108045015100 · GB108045020870 · GB108045020880
- Catchments
- Exe
Main River Barle fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
What fish are in the Main River Barle?
Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 18 surveyed sites on this water, between 1998 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.
18 sites · 111 events
10 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 9 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 2 sites
- 3–5 years
- 10 sites
- 6–10 years
- 3 sites
- Older
- 3 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
Search current river conditions & alerts → Compare this evidence with another river → England coarse close season →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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar18 siteslatest 9 Jul 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta18 siteslatest 9 Jul 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio15 siteslatest 9 Jul 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula15 siteslatest 9 Jul 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus14 siteslatest 9 Jul 2025
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae7 siteslatest 15 Aug 2023
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 31 Aug 2022
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 25 Aug 2009
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 31 Aug 2022
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 9 Jul 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
18 shown, newest survey first
Simonsbath (Te)
- Survey events
- 20
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 9 Jul 2025
Aclands (Te)
- Survey events
- 23
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 2 Jul 2025
D/S Perry Weir (Dip)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2022
U/S Perry Weir (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2022
South Barton Wood (Dip)
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2022
Tarr Steps hotel (dip)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2022
D/s Withypool (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 31 Aug 2022
Strong Ford (Sp)
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 31 Aug 2022
D/S Cornham Ford (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 26 Aug 2022
Bottom of Barle (Dip)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2022
Picked Stones (Sp)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2022
D/S Cornham Brake (Sp)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 30 Jun 2022
Landacre Bridge (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 2018
Crayfish Project Zone 4
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2017
Crayfish Project Zone 7
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2017
Batsom Ford (Te)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 2005
Knaplock Wood (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 30 Sept 2004
Sherdon Hutch (Te)*
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Sept 2003
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