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Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Witham Saltersford (upper) Subcatchment?

Monitoring has recorded 12 species across 7 surveyed sites on this water, between 1985 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta7 siteslatest 4 Nov 2025
  2. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus4 siteslatest 25 Aug 2023
  3. BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 4 Nov 2025
  4. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula4 siteslatest 9 Jul 2024
  5. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 7 Sept 2011
  6. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 2 Sept 2014
  7. RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 20 May 1997
  8. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 7 Jun 2023
  9. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 20 May 1997
  10. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 24 Apr 2012
  11. PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 18 Jun 1991
  12. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 13 May 1991

Surveyed sites on this water

7 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