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

What fish are in the Main River Torridge?

Monitoring has recorded 14 species across 34 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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar34 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta34 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio31 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus31 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula31 siteslatest 16 Jul 2025
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 5 Sept 2011
  7. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla13 siteslatest 16 Sept 2024
  8. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae9 siteslatest 28 Jun 2024
  9. European elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 16 Sept 2024
  10. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2024
  11. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 5 Sept 2011
  12. GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 3 Sept 2024
  13. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae3 siteslatest 17 Sept 2024
  14. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2014

Surveyed sites on this water

34 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