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Main River Parrett fishing evidence · Wessex

What fish are in the Main River Parrett?

Monitoring has recorded 36 species across 33 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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 Parrett

EA ecology area
Wessex
Waterbody IDs
GB108052015250 · GB108052015260 · GB108052015300 · GB108052015320 · GB108052015360 · GB108052015370 · +5 more
Catchments
Eel Survey · Somerset Area
02 · Survey breadth

33 sites · 298 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 2 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
10 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
23 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. European eelAnguilla anguilla23 siteslatest 8 Jul 2025
  2. RoachRutilus rutilus21 siteslatest 6 Aug 2025
  3. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus19 siteslatest 11 Aug 2021
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla19 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  5. GudgeonGobio gobio18 siteslatest 6 Aug 2025
  6. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula18 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
  7. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta16 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  8. BullheadCottus gobio16 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  9. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus16 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
  10. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus16 siteslatest 6 Aug 2025
  11. PerchPerca fluviatilis14 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  12. PikeEsox lucius11 siteslatest 6 Aug 2025
  13. ChubLeuciscus cephalus10 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
  14. Common breamAbramis brama10 siteslatest 19 Aug 2021
  15. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna10 siteslatest 9 Aug 2023
  16. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus8 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
  17. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri7 siteslatest 14 Aug 2013
  18. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 3 Aug 2011
  19. FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 6 Aug 2019
  20. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae4 siteslatest 25 Jul 2023
  21. Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus4 siteslatest 31 Jul 2014
  22. Pike varietiesEsox lucius4 siteslatest 14 Aug 2013
  23. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama4 siteslatest 7 Aug 2019
  24. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae3 siteslatest 15 Aug 2013
  25. TenchTinca tinca3 siteslatest 10 Aug 2023
  26. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 11 Aug 2021
  27. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 6 Aug 2013
  28. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 21 Jun 1994
  29. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2006
  30. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 7 Aug 2019
  31. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2011
  32. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 7 Aug 2013
  33. Common carp varietiesCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 8 Aug 2013
  34. European glass eelsAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 15 Aug 2013
  35. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 19 Aug 2015
  36. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 1 Jun 1994

Surveyed sites on this water

33 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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