East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Deben (Headwaters)?
Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 1998 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.
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius3 siteslatest 26 Sept 2024
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 18 Sept 2025
- Feral [brown] goldfishCarassius auratus1 sitelatest 10 Feb 2006
- PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 6 Feb 1998
- RoachRutilus rutilus1 sitelatest 10 Feb 2006
Surveyed sites on this water
3 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