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Trent fishing evidence · East Midlands

What fish are in the Trent (East Midlands)?

Monitoring has recorded 32 species across 17 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 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.

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

Trent (East Midlands)

EA ecology area
East Midlands
Waterbody IDs
GB104028047420 · GB104028053110 · GB104028053120 · GB104028053390 · GB104028058480
Catchments
TRENT
02 · Survey breadth

17 sites · 121 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 19 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
7 sites
3–5 years
2 sites
6–10 years
2 sites
Older
6 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. ChubLeuciscus cephalus16 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  2. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus16 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  3. GudgeonGobio gobio16 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  4. PerchPerca fluviatilis16 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  5. RoachRutilus rutilus16 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  6. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus14 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  7. BleakAlburnus alburnus13 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  8. Common breamAbramis brama13 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  9. BarbelBarbus barbus11 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  10. BullheadCottus gobio10 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  11. Spined loachCobitis taenia10 siteslatest 4 Oct 2023
  12. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  13. PikeEsox lucius8 siteslatest 29 Sept 2022
  14. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna6 siteslatest 22 Sept 2016
  15. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus5 siteslatest 4 Oct 2023
  16. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 19 Sept 2025
  17. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius4 siteslatest 22 Sept 2022
  18. European eelAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 4 Oct 2023
  19. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 29 Sept 2022
  20. Common gobyPomatoschistus microps2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2017
  21. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 22 Sept 2016
  22. FlounderPlatichthys flesus2 siteslatest 4 Sept 2025
  23. GraylingThymallus thymallus2 siteslatest 19 Sept 2013
  24. ZanderSander lucioperca2 siteslatest 20 Sept 2016
  25. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2021
  26. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 27 Sept 2010
  27. Crucian carpCarassius carassius1 sitelatest 19 Sept 2013
  28. Gobius sp.Gobius1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2022
  29. Lampetra sp. > ammocoeteLampetra1 sitelatest 4 Oct 2011
  30. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2009
  31. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 19 Oct 2012
  32. TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 22 Sept 2022

Surveyed sites on this water

17 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
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