North East · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Wreigh Burn?
Monitoring has recorded 12 species across 7 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 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 trutta7 siteslatest 26 Jun 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 26 Jun 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 26 Jun 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus4 siteslatest 26 Jun 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus4 siteslatest 26 Jun 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 8 Aug 2017
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 26 Jun 2025
- River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis2 siteslatest 13 Aug 2013
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 8 Jul 2011
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 26 Jun 2025
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 19 Jul 2010
- Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 6 Sept 2018
Surveyed sites on this water
7 shown, newest survey first
Wreigh Burn - Thropton
- Survey events
- 21
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 26 Jun 2025
Foxton Burn U/S Culvert
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 24 Sept 2021
Wreigh Burn at Low Trewitt
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 6 Sept 2018
Foxton Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Aug 2015
Wreigh Burn at Thropton 2
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2013
Wreigh Burn at Hazeltonrig
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 9 Jul 2013
Wreigh Burn at Netherton Burnfoot
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 2006
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