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River Stour Middle fishing evidence · East Anglia

What fish are in the River Stour Middle (East Anglia)?

Monitoring has recorded 36 species across 26 surveyed sites on this water, between 1981 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 Stour Middle (East Anglia)

EA ecology area
East Anglia
Waterbody IDs
GB105036040920 · GB105036040941 · GB105036040942 · GB105036041000
Catchments
Stour Catchment
02 · Survey breadth

26 sites · 383 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 11 Aug 2025

Within 2 years
8 sites
3–5 years
3 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
15 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. ChubLeuciscus cephalus25 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  2. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla25 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  3. PerchPerca fluviatilis24 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  4. PikeEsox lucius24 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  5. RoachRutilus rutilus24 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  6. Common breamAbramis brama22 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  7. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus22 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  8. GudgeonGobio gobio20 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  9. Spined loachCobitis taenia19 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  10. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula19 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  11. TenchTinca tinca19 siteslatest 4 Aug 2025
  12. BullheadCottus gobio18 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  13. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus18 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
  14. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus17 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  15. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus15 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  16. BleakAlburnus alburnus14 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  17. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus13 siteslatest 4 Aug 2025
  18. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama12 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  19. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio8 siteslatest 16 Aug 2006
  20. BarbelBarbus barbus7 siteslatest 3 Aug 2010
  21. ZanderSander lucioperca6 siteslatest 16 Jul 2013
  22. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio5 siteslatest 16 Aug 2006
  23. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 4 Jul 2023
  24. Roach x chub hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus cephalus3 siteslatest 18 Sept 2012
  25. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius2 siteslatest 23 Jul 2015
  26. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 26 Sept 1994
  27. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 1 Oct 2022
  28. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta2 siteslatest 25 Sept 2022
  29. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 24 Jul 2018
  30. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 17 Jul 2025
  31. Roach x dace hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 4 Aug 2023
  32. Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 16 Jul 2018
  33. Golden ruddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 22 Jul 2005
  34. Koi carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 27 Aug 2002
  35. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 19 Jul 2013
  36. Rudd x common bream hybridScardinius erythrophthalmus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 12 Jul 2023

Surveyed sites on this water

26 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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