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

What fish are in the Main River Bovey?

Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 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 Bovey

EA ecology area
Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Waterbody IDs
GB108046008300 · GB108046008320 · GB108046008470
Catchments
Teign
02 · Survey breadth

4 sites · 35 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 21 Jul 2025

Within 2 years
1 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
2 sites
Older
1 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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 28 Jun 2019
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta4 siteslatest 21 Jul 2025
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 1 Sept 2023
  4. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 30 Jun 2014
  5. BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2019
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 28 Aug 2008
  7. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2019
  8. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 30 Jun 2014

Surveyed sites on this water

4 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