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Solent and South Downs · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Test?

Monitoring has recorded 31 species across 82 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 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 trutta79 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla75 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio57 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  4. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus54 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  5. GraylingThymallus thymallus49 siteslatest 15 Sept 2025
  6. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula49 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  7. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar48 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  8. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri30 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  9. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus26 siteslatest 9 Oct 2025
  10. PikeEsox lucius23 siteslatest 20 Sept 2024
  11. GudgeonGobio gobio14 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
  12. RoachRutilus rutilus13 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  13. ChubLeuciscus cephalus12 siteslatest 8 Sept 2025
  14. PerchPerca fluviatilis12 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  15. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri11 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  16. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus9 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  17. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri7 siteslatest 12 Sept 2024
  18. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 26 Aug 2010
  19. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss4 siteslatest 19 Jul 2018
  20. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 15 Jul 2014
  21. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar2 siteslatest 19 Sept 2023
  22. Common breamAbramis brama2 siteslatest 18 Jul 2018
  23. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 12 Aug 2004
  24. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 16 Sept 2024
  25. BarbelBarbus barbus1 sitelatest 11 Sept 2025
  26. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 8 Aug 2005
  27. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 13 Jul 2017
  28. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2006
  29. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 7 Sept 2010
  30. Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2006
  31. Topmouth gudgeonPseudorasbora parva1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2023

Surveyed sites on this water

82 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