Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Main West Looe?
Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 6 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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 trutta6 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 24 Jul 2012
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 8 Aug 2025
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 30 Jul 2015
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 24 Jul 2012
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 2 Aug 2010
Surveyed sites on this water
6 shown, newest survey first
Gillhill Wood
- Survey events
- 24
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2025
Millcoombe Farm
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 11 Aug 2014
Church Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2014
Scawn Mill
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2014
Sowdens Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2014
Mid Quarry Park
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 9 Aug 2002
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