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East Midlands · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Wye (East Midlands)?

Monitoring has recorded 22 species across 30 surveyed sites on this water, between 1989 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. BullheadCottus gobio19 siteslatest 28 Aug 2025
  2. BarbelBarbus barbus18 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  3. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus18 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  4. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula18 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  5. ChubLeuciscus cephalus16 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  6. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus16 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  7. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar13 siteslatest 31 Aug 2021
  8. BleakAlburnus alburnus13 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  9. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta13 siteslatest 28 Aug 2025
  10. GudgeonGobio gobio13 siteslatest 5 Oct 2022
  11. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  12. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 31 Aug 2021
  13. RoachRutilus rutilus8 siteslatest 6 Oct 2022
  14. European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 1 Oct 2007
  15. GraylingThymallus thymallus6 siteslatest 1 Sept 2015
  16. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss6 siteslatest 28 Aug 2025
  17. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 22 Sept 2014
  18. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 14 Sept 2006
  19. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 4 Sept 2007
  20. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2015
  21. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2009
  22. PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 25 Sept 2009

Surveyed sites on this water

30 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