Yorkshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Foulness?
Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 2000 and 2023. 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.
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 27 Sept 2022
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 20 Sept 2016
- PikeEsox lucius3 siteslatest 13 Jun 2023
- RoachRutilus rutilus3 siteslatest 13 Jun 2023
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 27 Sept 2022
- BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 20 Sept 2016
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus2 siteslatest 25 Sept 2003
- Common breamAbramis brama2 siteslatest 29 Sept 2006
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 13 Jun 2023
- GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 13 Jun 2023
- PerchPerca fluviatilis2 siteslatest 13 Jun 2023
- Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna2 siteslatest 16 Oct 2007
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 16 Oct 2007
- RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 25 Sept 2003
- Spined loachCobitis taenia1 sitelatest 9 Jun 2015
Surveyed sites on this water
4 shown, newest survey first
Major Bridge, River Foulness FOULNES2
- Survey events
- 9
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 13 Jun 2023
Lincoln Flats gauging weir,River FoulnessFOULNES1
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 27 Sept 2022
Harswell
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 20 Sept 2016
US Lincoln Flats Gauging Weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 Oct 2005
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