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Monnow fishing evidence · West Midlands

What fish are in the Monnow?

Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 1987 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.

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

Monnow

EA ecology area
West Midlands
Waterbody IDs
GB109055029620 · GB109055029720 · GB109055036850 · GB109055036870
Catchments
Wye
02 · Survey breadth

9 sites · 57 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 13 Aug 2025

Within 2 years
3 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
6 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 trutta9 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 23 Aug 2013
  3. BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 5 Aug 2025
  6. GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2003
  7. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 5 Aug 2025

Surveyed sites on this water

9 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