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River Trent fishing evidence · West Midlands

What fish are in the River Trent (West Midlands)?

Monitoring has recorded 35 species across 41 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.

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 Trent (West Midlands)

EA ecology area
West Midlands
Waterbody IDs
GB104028047180 · GB104028047290 · GB104028047300 · GB104028053271 · GB104028053272 · GB104028053300 · +2 more
Catchments
RIVER TRENT
02 · Survey breadth

41 sites · 155 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 11 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
2 sites
3–5 years
4 sites
6–10 years
2 sites
Older
33 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 cephalus36 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  2. RoachRutilus rutilus36 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  3. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus35 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  4. GudgeonGobio gobio34 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  5. PerchPerca fluviatilis34 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla23 siteslatest 8 Jul 2010
  7. PikeEsox lucius22 siteslatest 5 Dec 2017
  8. Common breamAbramis brama18 siteslatest 8 Sept 2022
  9. BarbelBarbus barbus15 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  10. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta13 siteslatest 3 Jun 2025
  11. Pike varietiesEsox lucius12 siteslatest 16 Sept 2016
  12. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 14 May 2010
  13. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus8 siteslatest 6 Jun 2024
  14. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula8 siteslatest 6 Jun 2024
  15. BullheadCottus gobio7 siteslatest 6 Jun 2024
  16. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama7 siteslatest 19 Sept 2016
  17. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus6 siteslatest 26 Sept 2023
  18. BleakAlburnus alburnus6 siteslatest 11 Sept 2025
  19. Spined loachCobitis taenia5 siteslatest 25 Jun 2014
  20. TenchTinca tinca4 siteslatest 2 Aug 2023
  21. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 31 Aug 2007
  22. Common carp varietiesCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 13 Oct 2009
  23. GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 13 Sept 2018
  24. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 16 Jun 2009
  25. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 8 Sept 2022
  26. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus3 siteslatest 2 Jun 2009
  27. Tench varietiesTinca tinca2 siteslatest 16 Jul 2009
  28. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 3 Jun 2025
  29. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 4 Jun 2024
  30. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 18 Aug 2011
  31. Brown / sea trout x brook trout hybridSalmo trutta x Salvelinus fontinalis1 sitelatest 7 Jul 2010
  32. Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 30 May 2022
  33. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2014
  34. Roach x dace hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 22 Aug 1995
  35. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 18 Sept 2014

Surveyed sites on this water

41 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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