Pomatoschistus microps · England
Where common goby has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded common goby at 47 sites across 26 waters, between 1986 and 2023. These are monitoring records with dates. They do not establish what is present today, nor that you may fish for it.
Waters
Rivers with the most records
Ordered by how many surveyed sites on each water recorded it. Waters with their own page are linked.
- Relief Channel (Trawling Sites)5 siteslatest 2 Mar 2006
- Heigham Sound4 siteslatest 18 Sept 1998
- Tidal Waveney4 siteslatest 29 Sept 1999
- Tidal Yare4 siteslatest 11 Dec 1991
- Horsey Mere3 siteslatest 23 Sept 1993
- New Cut3 siteslatest 5 Oct 1987
- Great Eau FMU2 siteslatest 7 Nov 1989
- Ravensbourne2 siteslatest 3 Aug 2011
- Relief Channel (East Anglia)2 siteslatest 24 Aug 2005
- Trent (East Midlands)2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2017
- Asheldham Brook1 sitelatest 12 Jul 1993
- Beeleigh Weir Elver Traps1 sitelatest 18 Oct 2023
- Blakeney Brook (Blackpool Brook)1 sitelatest 3 Sept 2004
- C&B Navigation (Long Pond)1 sitelatest 19 Oct 2004
- Cone Pill1 sitelatest 3 Apr 2002
- Greyfleet Drain FMU1 sitelatest 19 Oct 1989
- Hickling Broad1 sitelatest 1 Oct 1986
- Holbrook1 sitelatest 10 Dec 1999
- Lee (Hertfordshire and North London)1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2004
- Main Strat1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2016
- River Conder1 sitelatest 15 Aug 2014
- Severn - Downstream conf Avon (main river)1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2016
- South Dike FMU1 sitelatest 31 Oct 1989
- South Holland Main Drain1 sitelatest 29 Sept 1997
- Thurne (Seine)1 sitelatest 6 Oct 1993
- Tidal Bure1 sitelatest 28 Oct 1993
Distribution
By ecology region
- East Anglia32 sites
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire5 sites
- West Midlands3 sites
- Kent, South London and East Sussex2 sites
- East Midlands2 sites
- Hertfordshire and North London1 sites
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly1 sites
- Cumbria and Lancashire1 sites
Regions are the Environment Agency’s own ecology areas. Survey effort is not even across them, so a higher count can reflect more monitoring rather than more fish.
Provenance
Source and licence
- SourceEnvironment Agency Ecology & Fish Data
- LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Source copy retrieved23 Jul 2026
- Not assertedCurrent presence, abundance, access, permission or fishing quality