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North East · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the South Tyne (North East)?

Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 62 surveyed sites on this water, between 1995 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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta62 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar41 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  3. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula25 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla19 siteslatest 31 Aug 2017
  5. European eelAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  6. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus14 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  7. BullheadCottus gobio6 siteslatest 12 Jul 2022
  8. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae6 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
  9. Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 26 Jul 2010
  10. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2017
  11. ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 29 Jul 2025
  12. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2012
  13. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 30 Sept 2015
  14. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2012
  15. River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 23 Aug 2011

Surveyed sites on this water

62 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