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

What fish are in the Main Strat?

Monitoring has recorded 17 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1987 and 2016. 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta5 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  2. BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  4. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 6 Aug 2010
  5. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus3 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  6. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  7. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  8. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 22 Sept 2006
  9. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  10. GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 21 Sept 2016
  11. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 5 Aug 2010
  12. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 16 Sept 2011
  13. Common gobyPomatoschistus microps1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2016
  14. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2016
  15. Feral [brown] goldfishCarassius auratus1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2016
  16. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2016
  17. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2016

Surveyed sites on this water

5 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