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Wessex · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Main Somerset Frome?

Monitoring has recorded 23 species across 12 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 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. RoachRutilus rutilus11 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  2. ChubLeuciscus cephalus10 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  3. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus10 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  4. GudgeonGobio gobio9 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  5. PikeEsox lucius9 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  6. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  7. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  8. PerchPerca fluviatilis8 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  9. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 5 Oct 2017
  10. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus5 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  11. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  12. BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 2 Aug 2017
  13. Common breamAbramis brama4 siteslatest 5 Oct 2017
  14. BarbelBarbus barbus3 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  15. European eelAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 24 Aug 2007
  16. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 28 Aug 2019
  17. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 10 Aug 2016
  18. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss2 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  19. TenchTinca tinca2 siteslatest 27 Jul 2016
  20. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 28 Aug 2019
  21. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2010
  22. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 10 Aug 2010
  23. GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 19 Aug 2010

Surveyed sites on this water

12 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