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River Cherwell fishing evidence · Thames

What fish are in the River Cherwell?

Monitoring has recorded 23 species across 41 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 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.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

River Cherwell

EA ecology area
Thames
Waterbody IDs
GB106039029800 · GB106039037290 · GB106039037310 · GB106039037350 · GB106039037430
Catchments
Thames
02 · Survey breadth

41 sites · 230 events

23 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 11 Jun 2025

Within 2 years
6 sites
3–5 years
4 sites
6–10 years
6 sites
Older
25 sites

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.

  1. RoachRutilus rutilus40 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  2. PikeEsox lucius38 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  3. PerchPerca fluviatilis34 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus33 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  5. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus33 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  6. GudgeonGobio gobio28 siteslatest 10 Jun 2025
  7. BleakAlburnus alburnus24 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  8. Common breamAbramis brama18 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  9. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama10 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
  10. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 24 Oct 2017
  11. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus8 siteslatest 13 Jun 2014
  12. TenchTinca tinca8 siteslatest 21 Jun 2018
  13. BarbelBarbus barbus4 siteslatest 7 Jun 2023
  14. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio4 siteslatest 5 Jun 2013
  15. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio4 siteslatest 21 Jun 2018
  16. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus4 siteslatest 16 Jun 2022
  17. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna4 siteslatest 9 Jul 2014
  18. Common carp varietiesCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2017
  19. Pike varietiesEsox lucius2 siteslatest 15 Aug 2015
  20. Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 22 May 2008
  21. Roach x silver bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 12 Oct 2003
  22. Rudd x common bream hybridScardinius erythrophthalmus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2007
  23. ZanderSander lucioperca1 sitelatest 11 Jun 2025

Surveyed sites on this water

41 shown, newest survey first

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
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