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

What fish are in the Main River Erme?

Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 13 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta13 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar11 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 2 Sept 2015
  4. BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 15 Sept 2023
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
  6. European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 15 Sept 2023
  7. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 21 Aug 2019
  8. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 15 Sept 2023
  9. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 18 Jul 2013

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