West Midlands · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Lyd (West Midlands)?
Monitoring has recorded 19 species across 15 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta14 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- RoachRutilus rutilus10 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio9 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- PikeEsox lucius9 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus6 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus4 siteslatest 16 Sept 2025
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama3 siteslatest 27 May 2002
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 4 Sept 2013
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2013
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 4 Sept 2013
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 27 May 2002
- Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 27 May 2002
- Common breamAbramis brama1 sitelatest 27 May 2002
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2013
- GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 22 May 2008
- Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2013
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 17 Nov 1993
Surveyed sites on this water
15 shown, newest survey first
d/s weir, next to boating lake
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 16 Sept 2025
u/s Whitecroft
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2024
u/s Lydney
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 18 Sept 2013
U/s Lydney G.S.
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 2013
D/s Lydney
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 17 Aug 2004
d/s Nochards
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2002
d/s Parkend
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2002
u/s Cannop Ponds
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2002
u/s Parkend
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2002
Canal Upper Basin
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 27 May 2002
Lydney Canal, Inner Basin
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 27 May 2002
U/S Wier at Lydney Boating Lake
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 15 May 2002
d/s Lydney. Railway bridge d/s to canal
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 9 Jun 1997
Lydney
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 14 Apr 1997
Parkend Playing Fields
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Nov 1993
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