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Solent and South Downs · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Testwood & Nursling Fishery?

Monitoring has recorded 18 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 2018 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. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri7 siteslatest 20 Aug 2025
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 20 Aug 2025
  3. BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 20 Aug 2025
  4. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  5. FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  6. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus4 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  7. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula4 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  8. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 21 Aug 2024
  9. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  10. PerchPerca fluviatilis3 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  11. ChubLeuciscus cephalus2 siteslatest 23 Aug 2023
  12. PikeEsox lucius2 siteslatest 23 Aug 2023
  13. RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  14. BarbelBarbus barbus1 sitelatest 4 Oct 2019
  15. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 15 Oct 2018
  16. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2025
  17. Sea lamprey ammocoetesPetromyzon marinus1 sitelatest 15 Oct 2018
  18. TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 21 Aug 2024

Surveyed sites on this water

8 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