Wensum (Restoration strategy)
- EA ecology area
- East Anglia
- Waterbody IDs
- GB105034055881
- Catchments
- Wensum catchment
Wensum (Restoration strategy) fishing evidence · East Anglia
What fish are in the Wensum (Restoration strategy)?
Monitoring has recorded 22 species across 17 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 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.
17 sites · 34 events
22 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 1 May 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 4 sites
- 6–10 years
- 2 sites
- Older
- 10 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
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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.
- BullheadCottus gobio16 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus16 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus16 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- GudgeonGobio gobio15 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula15 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus14 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- PikeEsox lucius13 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- RoachRutilus rutilus13 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta12 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus8 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri7 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae4 siteslatest 21 Sept 2012
- 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius3 siteslatest 1 May 2025
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 28 Aug 2024
- RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 5 Jul 2019
- BarbelBarbus barbus2 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- Common breamAbramis brama2 siteslatest 30 Aug 2024
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 11 Jul 2013
- TenchTinca tinca2 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
- Roach x chub hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 13 Jun 2012
Surveyed sites on this water
17 shown, newest survey first
U/S Dunton Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 1 May 2025
U/S Attlebridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 30 Aug 2024
Swanton Morley (Restoration Reach 14)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 16
- Latest survey
- 28 Aug 2024
Three Bridges Farm, Lyng
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2024
D/S Porters Lane, Lenwade
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 14 Aug 2024
Hempton Moor (U/S Fakenham bypass) (reach 27)
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 2019
U/S County School (reach 19)
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 15
- Latest survey
- 5 Jul 2019
D/S Fakenham Common (Reach 25)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 2014
Gt. Ryburgh Common, New loop (Reach24)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 2013
Gt Ryburgh End - D/S confluence to iron bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 13
- Latest survey
- 21 Sept 2012
Gt Ryburgh End - New Channel D/S
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 6 Sept 2012
Gt Ryburgh End - New channel U/S
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2012
Sculthorpe Moor (D/S Sculthorpe Mill) (reach 28)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2012
Gt Ryburgh End - Back Channel (Habitat survey)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 20 Sept 2011
Gt Ryburgh Common d/s meander
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 12
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2011
Gt Ryburgh Common upstream
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2011
Sayers Meadow
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 30 Jul 1997
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