Cyprinus carpio · England
Where ghost carp has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded ghost carp at 37 sites across 27 waters, between 1989 and 2017. 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.
- Lincolnshire Lakes6 siteslatest 11 Dec 2007
- Elmhurst Lake5 siteslatest 16 Dec 2002
- Wilts & Berks Canal2 siteslatest 7 Apr 2010
- Beult1 sitelatest 6 May 2010
- Buck Beck1 sitelatest 30 May 2007
- Bulwell Hall Ponds1 sitelatest 19 Nov 2013
- Cray1 sitelatest 1 Jul 2008
- East Hampshire1 sitelatest 10 May 2013
- Elmhurst B1 sitelatest 22 Nov 2002
- Gade1 sitelatest 26 May 2004
- Glynde Reach1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2013
- Lee (Hertfordshire and North London)1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2006
- Middle Thames (Thames)1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2005
- Molesey - Teddington1 sitelatest 15 Sept 2004
- Nar1 sitelatest 4 Oct 2013
- Ouse (Solent and South Downs)1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2015
- River Aire (Yorkshire)1 sitelatest 28 Aug 2001
- River Cam1 sitelatest 8 Jun 1989
- River Don1 sitelatest 4 Jul 2017
- River Wharfe (Yorkshire)1 sitelatest 23 Jul 2002
- Stillwaters1 sitelatest 11 Dec 2014
- Shepperton - Sunbury1 sitelatest 13 Sept 2006
- Silver Springs Lakes1 sitelatest 23 Nov 2017
- Stillwater Management1 sitelatest 8 Oct 2010
- TWARP reaches of the Thames1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2012
- Tetford Country Cottages1 sitelatest 10 Nov 2004
- Warwickshire Avon1 sitelatest 15 Aug 2001
Distribution
By ecology region
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire14 sites
- Thames6 sites
- Yorkshire3 sites
- Solent and South Downs3 sites
- Kent, South London and East Sussex3 sites
- West Midlands2 sites
- Hertfordshire and North London2 sites
- East Midlands2 sites
- Wessex1 sites
- East Anglia1 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