AnglerRadar / Rivers / Main River Marden Main River Marden fishing evidence · Wessex
What fish are in the Main River Marden? Monitoring has recorded 16 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 and 2022. 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 Marden
EA ecology area Wessex
Waterbody IDs GB109053022050 · GB109053022060 · GB109053022070 · GB109053027610
Catchments Bristol Avon Catchment 02 · Survey breadth 8 sites · 22 events 16 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
03 · Freshness by site Latest 28 Jul 2022
Within 2 years 0 sites
3–5 years 1 sites
6–10 years 1 sites
Older 6 sites 04 · Trip constraints 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.
Brown / sea trout Salmo trutta 6 sites latest 28 Jul 2022 Roach Rutilus rutilus 6 sites latest 19 May 2011 Dace Leuciscus leuciscus 5 sites latest 11 Oct 2016 Gudgeon Gobio gobio 5 sites latest 19 May 2011 Barbel Barbus barbus 4 sites latest 19 May 2011 Chub Leuciscus cephalus 4 sites latest 19 May 2011 Perch Perca fluviatilis 4 sites latest 11 Oct 2016 Bullhead Cottus gobio 3 sites latest 28 Jul 2022 3-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus 2 sites latest 11 Jul 2017 European eel Anguilla anguilla 2 sites latest 18 Aug 2004 Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus 2 sites latest 28 Jul 2022 Stone loach Barbatula barbatula 2 sites latest 28 Jul 2022 Bleak Alburnus alburnus 1 site latest 19 Jul 2006 Feral [brown] goldfish Carassius auratus 1 site latest 11 Oct 2016 Pike Esox lucius 1 site latest 19 Jul 2006 Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss 1 site latest 23 Apr 1998 Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Provenance
Source and licence Source Environment Agency Ecology & Fish Data Licence Open Government Licence v3.0 Source copy retrieved 23 Jul 2026 Waterbody name As published by the Environment Agency Not asserted Current presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety