Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Bray?
Monitoring has recorded 11 species across 14 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar14 siteslatest 12 Aug 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta14 siteslatest 12 Aug 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio14 siteslatest 12 Aug 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula7 siteslatest 12 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 12 Aug 2025
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae5 siteslatest 12 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 11 Sept 2012
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae4 siteslatest 12 Sept 2018
- European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 4 Aug 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 4 Aug 2025
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 28 Jul 2014
Surveyed sites on this water
14 shown, newest survey first
Brayley Bridge (Sp)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 12 Aug 2025
Bray Bridge (Dip)
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2025
Meeth (Dip)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2025
Rock Bridge (Sp)
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2025
Leworthy (Te)
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 17 Jul 2025
Challacombe Mill (Te)
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 19 Jun 2025
Lydcott Wood (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2023
Ovis Wood (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2023
Newton Bridge (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2023
Wallover Barton (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 2023
Brayford Quarry (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 11 Aug 2023
Challacombe Mill (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 2023
D/S Brayford Bridge (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 2023
Filleigh Bridge (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2012
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