North East · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Simon Burn?
Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 and 2014. 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 trutta3 siteslatest 22 Aug 2014
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 22 Aug 2014
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 22 Aug 2014
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 22 Aug 2014
- BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 22 Aug 2014
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 14 Jul 2008
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 22 Aug 2014
Surveyed sites on this water
3 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