Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Main River Tale?
Monitoring has recorded 11 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 1998 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 9 Jun 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 9 Jun 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 5 Jun 2015
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 17 Jun 2019
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 2 Jun 2014
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 9 Jun 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 2 Jun 2014
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 2 Jun 2014
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 17 Jun 2011
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 9 Jun 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 24 May 2023
Surveyed sites on this water
3 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