Wessex · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Little Avon?
Monitoring has recorded 27 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1978 and 2024. 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 anguilla10 siteslatest 7 Aug 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta9 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024
- BullheadCottus gobio8 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus8 siteslatest 10 Sept 2015
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus8 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024
- RoachRutilus rutilus8 siteslatest 26 Sept 2018
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula8 siteslatest 7 Aug 2024
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus7 siteslatest 2 Oct 2018
- GudgeonGobio gobio7 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024
- GraylingThymallus thymallus6 siteslatest 13 Aug 2024
- European elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 26 Sept 2018
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri4 siteslatest 7 Aug 2024
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss4 siteslatest 1 Sept 2005
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus3 siteslatest 11 Sept 2012
- Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 25 Feb 2003
- Common breamAbramis brama2 siteslatest 25 Feb 2003
- European glass eelsAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 26 Sept 2018
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 2 Jun 2004
- Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 2 Oct 2018
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2024
- Lampetra sp. > ammocoeteLampetra1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2015
- Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2015
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 9 Sept 2009
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 2 Oct 2018
- PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 14 Mar 1990
- River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2005
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 25 Feb 2003
Surveyed sites on this water
11 shown, newest survey first
Middle Mill Farm
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 17
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2024
Noddy House
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 17
- Latest survey
- 7 Aug 2024
Berkeley, d/s kennels
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 15
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2012
Horsebridge, u/s Wickwar WRW
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 6 Sept 2012
d/s Charfield Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 6 Sept 2012
Stone
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 1 Sept 2005
Huntingford Mill, d/s Railway bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 3 Jun 2004
Tortworth Lake
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Feb 2003
d/s Wickwar WRW
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 13 Mar 2000
Tortworth Brook, Falfield
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 1999
Sharpness
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 1994
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