East Anglia · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Wensum (upper)?
Monitoring has recorded 22 species across 10 surveyed sites on this water, between 1986 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta10 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio10 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 3 Sept 2024
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula10 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 3 Nov 2011
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius8 siteslatest 22 Apr 2025
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri7 siteslatest 22 Apr 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus7 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- GudgeonGobio gobio7 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri6 siteslatest 2 Mar 2023
- European eelAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 30 Apr 2007
- PerchPerca fluviatilis4 siteslatest 21 Apr 1994
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae3 siteslatest 2 Apr 2015
- RoachRutilus rutilus3 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
- Lampetra sp. > ammocoeteLampetra1 sitelatest 11 Mar 2014
- Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 11 Mar 2014
- Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 10 Oct 2018
- PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2018
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 10 Oct 2018
Surveyed sites on this water
10 shown, newest survey first
U/S Fakenham Mill
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 17
- Latest survey
- 2 Sept 2025
South Mill Farm
- Survey events
- 13
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 25 Apr 2025
Tatterford Common
- Survey events
- 13
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 22 Apr 2025
U/S Broomsthorpe Bridge
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 15 Apr 2025
Hellhoughton Common
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 10 Apr 2025
U/S Sculthorpe Mill
- Survey events
- 13
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 3 May 2024
Fakenham Common
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 17
- Latest survey
- 14 Jun 2018
D/S Doughton Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 3 Apr 1997
U/S Raynham Bridge
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 26 Mar 1997
Sculthorpe Moor
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Mar 1986
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