East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Gipping (Main Reaches)?
Monitoring has recorded 23 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1989 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.
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla11 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis11 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- PikeEsox lucius11 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- RoachRutilus rutilus11 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus10 siteslatest 24 Apr 2025
- TenchTinca tinca10 siteslatest 23 Apr 2025
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus9 siteslatest 24 Apr 2025
- GudgeonGobio gobio9 siteslatest 24 Apr 2025
- Common breamAbramis brama8 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- Mirror carpCyprinus carpio8 siteslatest 16 Apr 2009
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus8 siteslatest 24 Apr 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula7 siteslatest 24 Apr 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- Roach x chub hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus cephalus4 siteslatest 9 May 2016
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama4 siteslatest 23 Apr 2025
- RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus3 siteslatest 29 Apr 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 24 Apr 2025
- Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 22 Apr 2005
- Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 17 Apr 2025
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 15 Apr 2008
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 10 May 2016
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 26 Apr 2016
- ZanderSander lucioperca1 sitelatest 19 Apr 2004
Surveyed sites on this water
11 shown, newest survey first
Sproughton Intake
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 18
- Latest survey
- 29 Apr 2025
Needham Market
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 18
- Latest survey
- 24 Apr 2025
D/S Bramford Lock
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 15
- Latest survey
- 23 Apr 2025
Munton & Fison
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 16
- Latest survey
- 17 Apr 2025
Station Road Bridge
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 16
- Latest survey
- 15 Apr 2025
Gypsy Lane
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 30 Jul 1999
Hadleigh Road Estate No1
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 1999
Hadleigh Road Estate No2
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 1999
Sproughton B.S.C.
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 1999
Bushmans Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1999
U/S Sharnford Lock
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 6 Jul 1999
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