East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Oughton?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 and 2022. 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 trutta5 siteslatest 30 May 2022
- BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 30 May 2022
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 15 May 2013
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 30 Oct 1998
- Feral [brown] goldfishCarassius auratus1 sitelatest 21 Oct 1997
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Westmill Farm
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 30 May 2022
DS Westmill Farm Overspill Weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Oct 2008
Westmill Farm Overspill Weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Oct 2008
Oughton Common
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 14 Apr 2004
Burford Road Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 27 Oct 1998
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