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Solent and South Downs · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Meon?

Monitoring has recorded 20 species across 17 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta16 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio15 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla15 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus12 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  5. ChubLeuciscus cephalus11 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  6. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 8 Aug 2023
  7. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  8. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar6 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  9. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  10. GraylingThymallus thymallus5 siteslatest 1 Aug 2023
  11. PerchPerca fluviatilis4 siteslatest 25 Jul 2017
  12. RoachRutilus rutilus4 siteslatest 27 Jul 2023
  13. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  14. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar2 siteslatest 31 Aug 2018
  15. FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 12 Jul 2011
  16. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 8 Aug 2007
  17. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 5 Aug 2025
  18. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 12 Jul 2011
  19. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 18 Sept 2003
  20. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 28 Aug 2006

Surveyed sites on this water

17 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