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

What fish are in the Main River Mole (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)?

Monitoring has recorded 13 species across 20 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.

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 salar20 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta20 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio16 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula9 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 8 Aug 2016
  7. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae7 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  8. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
  9. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae6 siteslatest 24 May 2023
  10. European elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  11. Lampetra sp.Lampetra3 siteslatest 19 May 2022
  12. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 9 Jul 2014
  13. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 24 May 2023

Surveyed sites on this water

20 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