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West Midlands · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Leadon?

Monitoring has recorded 35 species across 25 surveyed sites on this water, between 1978 and 2022. 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.

  1. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla25 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  2. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula24 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  3. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta21 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus20 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  5. BullheadCottus gobio16 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  6. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus14 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  7. PikeEsox lucius14 siteslatest 2 Aug 2017
  8. RoachRutilus rutilus13 siteslatest 2 Aug 2017
  9. ChubLeuciscus cephalus12 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  10. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus11 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  11. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar11 siteslatest 27 Jul 2021
  12. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri11 siteslatest 2 Aug 2017
  13. GudgeonGobio gobio9 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  14. PerchPerca fluviatilis8 siteslatest 6 Sept 2012
  15. European elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 27 Jul 2021
  16. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus5 siteslatest 27 Jul 2021
  17. European glass eelsAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 2 Aug 2017
  18. FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 6 Sept 2012
  19. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis4 siteslatest 24 Sept 2009
  20. BleakAlburnus alburnus2 siteslatest 18 Mar 1997
  21. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2012
  22. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 5 Sept 2007
  23. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 17 Sept 2008
  24. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 4 Aug 2022
  25. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 13 Sept 2010
  26. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 27 Jul 2021
  27. River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2012
  28. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama2 siteslatest 18 Jun 2002
  29. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 3 Mar 1992
  30. BarbelBarbus barbus1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2021
  31. Chub x dace hybridLeuciscus cephalus x Leuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 31 Jul 2018
  32. Common breamAbramis brama1 sitelatest 30 Sept 1986
  33. Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 4 Aug 2016
  34. River lamprey ammocoetesLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 13 Sept 2010
  35. TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 7 Oct 1986

Surveyed sites on this water

25 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