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Main River Brue fishing evidence · Wessex

What fish are in the Main River Brue?

Monitoring has recorded 25 species across 22 surveyed sites on this water, between 1990 and 2023. 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 Brue

EA ecology area
Wessex
Waterbody IDs
GB108052021090 · GB108052021120 · GB108052021140 · GB108052021180 · GB108052021190 · GB108052021260
Catchments
Eel Survey · Somerset Area
02 · Survey breadth

22 sites · 75 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 2 Jun 2023

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
3 sites
6–10 years
2 sites
Older
17 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 barbatula15 siteslatest 23 May 2023
  2. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus14 siteslatest 2 Jun 2023
  3. BullheadCottus gobio12 siteslatest 27 Jun 2019
  4. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus10 siteslatest 2 Jun 2023
  5. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta10 siteslatest 8 Aug 2012
  6. RoachRutilus rutilus10 siteslatest 2 Jun 2023
  7. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 30 May 2023
  8. GudgeonGobio gobio8 siteslatest 2 Jun 2023
  9. PerchPerca fluviatilis8 siteslatest 30 May 2023
  10. ChubLeuciscus cephalus7 siteslatest 2 Jun 2023
  11. European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 8 Aug 2012
  12. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus6 siteslatest 2 Jun 2023
  13. PikeEsox lucius6 siteslatest 23 May 2023
  14. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna5 siteslatest 5 Jul 2011
  15. Common breamAbramis brama4 siteslatest 25 Apr 2017
  16. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus4 siteslatest 25 Apr 2017
  17. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus3 siteslatest 18 Aug 2009
  18. FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 17 Jun 2015
  19. Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2011
  20. TenchTinca tinca2 siteslatest 25 Jun 2019
  21. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 17 Jun 2015
  22. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2005
  23. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 8 Jun 2016
  24. Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 23 Jun 2006
  25. Tench varietiesTinca tinca1 sitelatest 12 May 2005

Surveyed sites on this water

22 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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