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Wensum (central) fishing evidence · East Anglia

What fish are in the Wensum (central)?

Monitoring has recorded 35 species across 37 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.

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

Wensum (central)

EA ecology area
East Anglia
Waterbody IDs
GB105034055881 · GB105034055882
Catchments
Wensum catchment
02 · Survey breadth

37 sites · 286 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 10 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
5 sites
3–5 years
4 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
27 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. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus36 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  2. PikeEsox lucius36 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  3. RoachRutilus rutilus36 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  4. PerchPerca fluviatilis35 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla34 siteslatest 15 Aug 2025
  6. GudgeonGobio gobio34 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  7. ChubLeuciscus cephalus32 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  8. BullheadCottus gobio29 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  9. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus29 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  10. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula29 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  11. TenchTinca tinca21 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  12. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus18 siteslatest 15 Aug 2025
  13. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri18 siteslatest 18 Sept 2008
  14. European eelAnguilla anguilla18 siteslatest 23 Oct 2007
  15. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri17 siteslatest 29 Sept 2023
  16. Common breamAbramis brama17 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  17. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta14 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  18. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus13 siteslatest 13 Sept 2007
  19. BarbelBarbus barbus11 siteslatest 26 Sept 2013
  20. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus10 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
  21. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  22. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae7 siteslatest 24 Oct 2018
  23. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius5 siteslatest 23 Jul 2024
  24. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae5 siteslatest 23 Aug 2022
  25. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama4 siteslatest 13 Sept 2022
  26. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio3 siteslatest 22 Sept 2009
  27. Crucian carpCarassius carassius2 siteslatest 6 Aug 1997
  28. Lampetra sp. > ammocoeteLampetra2 siteslatest 9 Sept 2014
  29. Roach x dace hybridRutilus rutilus x Leuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2010
  30. Roach x rudd hybridRutilus rutilus x Scardinius erythrophthalmus2 siteslatest 31 Jul 1990
  31. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 22 Sept 2009
  32. Golden ruddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 10 Jul 2015
  33. GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2006
  34. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 12 Oct 2017
  35. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 5 Sept 2013

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
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