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Stiffkey (upper) headwaters fishing evidence · East Anglia

What fish are in the Stiffkey (upper) headwaters?

Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 15 surveyed sites on this water, between 2003 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.

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

Stiffkey (upper) headwaters

EA ecology area
East Anglia
Waterbody IDs
GB105034055780 · GB105034055830 · GB105034055840
Catchments
Stiffkey catchment
02 · Survey breadth

15 sites · 27 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 26 Feb 2014

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
0 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta11 siteslatest 26 Feb 2014
  2. BullheadCottus gobio10 siteslatest 26 Feb 2014
  3. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 19 Feb 2014
  4. European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 11 Apr 2008
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula8 siteslatest 10 Apr 2008
  6. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 10 Apr 2008

Surveyed sites on this water

15 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