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River Frome fishing evidence · West Midlands

What fish are in the River Frome (West Midlands)?

Monitoring has recorded 38 species across 27 surveyed sites on this water, between 1978 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 Frome (West Midlands)

EA ecology area
West Midlands
Waterbody IDs
GB109054032460 · GB109054032470 · GB209054032450
Catchments
River Severn
02 · Survey breadth

27 sites · 135 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 3 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
2 sites
3–5 years
5 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
19 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta25 siteslatest 3 Sept 2025
  2. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla18 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  3. RoachRutilus rutilus15 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  4. BullheadCottus gobio13 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  5. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus12 siteslatest 17 Aug 2023
  6. PikeEsox lucius10 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  7. Common breamAbramis brama9 siteslatest 1 Sept 2022
  8. PerchPerca fluviatilis8 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  9. European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 31 Aug 2022
  10. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae7 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  11. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri6 siteslatest 7 Sept 2011
  12. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 14 Sept 2011
  13. ChubLeuciscus cephalus5 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  14. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  15. GudgeonGobio gobio5 siteslatest 1 Sept 2022
  16. Pike varietiesEsox lucius5 siteslatest 2 Sept 2015
  17. European elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  18. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae4 siteslatest 1 Sept 2022
  19. FlounderPlatichthys flesus3 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  20. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama3 siteslatest 9 Sept 2016
  21. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 16 Aug 2024
  22. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 13 Aug 2009
  23. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 13 Jan 2004
  24. Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 25 Aug 2022
  25. River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2018
  26. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2014
  27. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2018
  28. TenchTinca tinca2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2018
  29. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 12 Sept 2007
  30. European glass eelsAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 7 Sept 2018
  31. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 12 Sept 2017
  32. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 12 Oct 1989
  33. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 30 Jul 1997
  34. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 18 Sept 2014
  35. River lamprey ammocoetesLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2006
  36. Roach x dace hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 9 Sept 2016
  37. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 7 Sept 2018
  38. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 16 Aug 2024

Surveyed sites on this water

27 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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