Wessex · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Char?
Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 and 2016. 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 4 Oct 2016
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 14 Sept 2016
- European elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 4 Oct 2016
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 5 Sept 2013
- BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2016
- European glass eelsAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 5 Sept 2013
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2016
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2016
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Befferlands Farm
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 4 Oct 2016
Becklands Farm
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 14 Sept 2016
Dolphin Caravan Park
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2013
Seadown Caravan Park
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2013
Whitechurch Canonicorum
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2013
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