North East · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Blyth (North East)?
Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 12 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 and 2024. 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 trutta12 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula10 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 8 Jun 2022
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus9 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 28 Jun 2016
- GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae3 siteslatest 23 Jul 2024
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
- GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 8 Jun 2022
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2014
- BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 30 Jul 2012
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2014
- PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 27 Jun 2005
- River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 4 Jul 2011
Surveyed sites on this water
12 shown, newest survey first
River Blyth at Humford Mill
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 24 Jul 2024
River Blyth at Plessey Farm
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 24 Jul 2024
River Blyth at Bellasis Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2024
River Blyth at Shilvington Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 23 Jul 2024
Catraw Burn
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 15 Jul 2024
How Burn at Whiteside
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 10 Jul 2024
River Blyth at Thornyford
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 27 Jun 2016
Cadgers Burn at Kirkley Hall
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 4 Jul 2014
River Blyth at Stannington Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2012
River Blyth at Howburn Bridge (WFD Site)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 4 Jul 2011
River Blyth at Humsford (c)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 27 Jun 2005
East Trewick
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 20 Oct 1993
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