North East · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Tarset Burn?
Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 6 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 and 2026. 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 trutta6 siteslatest 24 Jun 2026
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 5 Sept 2023
- European eelAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 14 Oct 2021
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 24 Jun 2026
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 5 Sept 2023
- BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 5 Sept 2023
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 5 Sept 2023
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 5 Sept 2023
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 22 Aug 2002
Surveyed sites on this water
6 shown, newest survey first
Smallhope Burn
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 24 Jun 2026
Tarset Burn at Redmire
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2023
Tarset Burn at Waterhead
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 14 Oct 2021
Tarset Burn at Tarret Burn Mouth
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2014
Highfield Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 6 Oct 2005
Tarset Burn at Bought Hill
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 10 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