Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Swincombe River?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 and 2024. 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar8 siteslatest 11 Jul 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 11 Jul 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 2 Aug 2010
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 11 Jul 2024
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 11 Jul 2024
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Wydemeet (Sp)
- Survey events
- 9
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 11 Jul 2024
U/S Swincombe Dam (5 min)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 4 Oct 2023
Cattle Drink (5 min)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 28 Sept 2023
D/S Childes Tomb (SAC)*
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 15 Aug 2008
Fox Tor Mire (SAC)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 15 Aug 2008
U/S Confluence (Dip)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Aug 2005
U/S Island (Sp)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2005
U/S Intake Dam (Te)*
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2005
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