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Main West Dart fishing evidence · Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

What fish are in the Main West Dart?

Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 and 2024. 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 West Dart

EA ecology area
Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Waterbody IDs
GB108046005260 · GB108046008340 · GB108046008360 · GB108046008400
Catchments
Dart
02 · Survey breadth

8 sites · 39 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 2 Sept 2024

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
7 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
1 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 2 Sept 2024
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar7 siteslatest 2 Sept 2024
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 19 Sept 2008
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus6 siteslatest 19 Jul 2024
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024

Surveyed sites on this water

8 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