Wessex · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Cary?
Monitoring has recorded 16 species across 6 surveyed sites on this water, between 2003 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.
- RoachRutilus rutilus6 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 5 Jun 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis5 siteslatest 30 Apr 2019
- PikeEsox lucius5 siteslatest 30 Apr 2019
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 22 May 2019
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus4 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus4 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 24 May 2022
- GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus4 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius2 siteslatest 14 Aug 2014
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
- Motherless minnow / SunbleakLeucaspius delineatus1 sitelatest 5 Jun 2025
- RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 30 Sept 2004
- Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 18 Jun 2007
Surveyed sites on this water
6 shown, newest survey first
Cradle Bridge
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 5 Jun 2025
Somerton Door
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 3 Jun 2025
Perry's Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 22 May 2019
Cary Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 30 Apr 2019
D/s Somerton STW
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 10 Apr 2019
Cradle Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Aug 2008
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