Carassius auratus · England
Where golden goldfish has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded golden goldfish at 32 sites across 29 waters, between 1988 and 2025. 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.
- Wandle4 siteslatest 28 Jun 2017
- Above Mkt Harborough1 sitelatest 8 Nov 2007
- Alver1 sitelatest 17 Jun 2025
- Beane1 sitelatest 28 Aug 2013
- Black Brook1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2011
- Bow Lake1 sitelatest 26 Oct 2009
- Chess1 sitelatest 24 Sept 2015
- Ell Brook1 sitelatest 4 Mar 1992
- Elmhurst B1 sitelatest 22 Nov 2002
- Gade1 sitelatest 19 Sept 2008
- Lincolnshire Lakes1 sitelatest 3 Dec 2002
- Manchester1 sitelatest 25 Feb 2009
- Mimram1 sitelatest 10 May 2006
- Purwell1 sitelatest 26 Mar 2014
- Ravensbourne1 sitelatest 20 Dec 2007
- Reach below Warkton1 sitelatest 26 Oct 2008
- River Colne Lower (East Anglia)1 sitelatest 20 Apr 2007
- River Kennet1 sitelatest 12 Nov 2009
- River Loddon1 sitelatest 18 Oct 2006
- River Pool1 sitelatest 16 Mar 2005
- River Swilgate1 sitelatest 14 May 2009
- Stillwaters1 sitelatest 11 Dec 2014
- Shuttle1 sitelatest 5 Jun 2013
- Tetford Country Cottages1 sitelatest 10 Nov 2004
- Till (Lincs) Subcatchment1 sitelatest 23 Apr 2013
- Turkey Brook1 sitelatest 3 Dec 2013
- Wallington1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2004
- Western Rother (Solent and South Downs)1 sitelatest 13 Jul 2006
- Wilts & Berks Canal1 sitelatest 7 Apr 2010
Distribution
By ecology region
- Kent, South London and East Sussex7 sites
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire6 sites
- Hertfordshire and North London5 sites
- Solent and South Downs4 sites
- Thames3 sites
- West Midlands2 sites
- East Anglia2 sites
- Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire1 sites
- East Midlands1 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