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North East · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Northern Burns?

Monitoring has recorded 12 species across 24 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 and 2019. 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 trutta20 siteslatest 20 Jun 2019
  2. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus19 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 25 Sept 2017
  4. European elversAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 22 Sept 2017
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula9 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
  7. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus6 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
  8. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 5 Sept 2016
  9. FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 25 Sept 2017
  10. BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
  11. Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 25 Jul 2010
  12. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 30 Aug 2015

Surveyed sites on this water

24 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