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Thames · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Upper Thames (Thames)?

Monitoring has recorded 22 species across 37 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. RoachRutilus rutilus36 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  2. PerchPerca fluviatilis34 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  3. ChubLeuciscus cephalus32 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  4. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus32 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  5. BleakAlburnus alburnus31 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  6. PikeEsox lucius31 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  7. GudgeonGobio gobio27 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  8. Common breamAbramis brama24 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  9. BarbelBarbus barbus20 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  10. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna17 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
  11. TenchTinca tinca15 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  12. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta13 siteslatest 25 Sept 2023
  13. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama7 siteslatest 14 Oct 2025
  14. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus7 siteslatest 24 Sept 2025
  15. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 12 Sept 2024
  16. European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 25 Sept 2023
  17. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 15 Jul 2019
  18. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 15 Jul 2019
  19. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 26 Sept 2023
  20. Common carp varietiesCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 8 Oct 2010
  21. GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 13 Oct 2010
  22. Roach x dace hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2005

Surveyed sites on this water

37 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