Scardinius erythrophthalmus · England
Where golden rudd has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded golden rudd at 52 sites across 40 waters, between 1986 and 2026. 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 Lakes8 siteslatest 11 Dec 2007
- River Wid (Main Reaches)3 siteslatest 30 Nov 2007
- Gade2 siteslatest 17 May 2007
- Lake Surveys2 siteslatest 16 Dec 2008
- Old West River2 siteslatest 28 Oct 2004
- Above Wellingborough1 sitelatest 30 Jun 2008
- Beult1 sitelatest 3 Jul 2001
- Bure (upper)1 sitelatest 2 May 2002
- Cheddar Yeo1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2006
- Chess1 sitelatest 12 Sept 2008
- DS Lark1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2005
- Elmhurst B1 sitelatest 22 Nov 2002
- Fossdyke Navigation Canal1 sitelatest 26 Jun 2006
- Loxwood Stream1 sitelatest 17 Jul 2008
- Main River Tone1 sitelatest 12 Sept 2019
- Main Tamar1 sitelatest 23 Jul 2008
- River Blythe1 sitelatest 5 Feb 1997
- River Alne1 sitelatest 18 Sept 1986
- River Axe Catchment1 sitelatest 2 May 2007
- River Blackwater (East Anglia)1 sitelatest 23 Sept 2008
- River Chelmer Lower (C&B Navigation)1 sitelatest 29 May 2009
- River Don1 sitelatest 25 Mar 2004
- River Ouse/Ure eel surveys1 sitelatest 5 Aug 2024
- River Stour (West Midlands)1 sitelatest 10 Aug 2023
- River Stour Middle (East Anglia)1 sitelatest 22 Jul 2005
- Rother - main river1 sitelatest 16 Jul 2013
- Steeping FMU1 sitelatest 7 Jun 2006
- TWARP reaches of the Thames1 sitelatest 5 Jul 2000
- Tetford Country Cottages1 sitelatest 10 Nov 2004
- Thet1 sitelatest 18 Sept 2024
- Timberland Delph1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2004
- Tove1 sitelatest 14 Apr 2026
- Trader/Maud Foster Drain1 sitelatest 8 Jun 2007
- U/S Boston1 sitelatest 29 Jul 2004
- U/S Tattershall Bridge1 sitelatest 12 Jul 2006
- Wainfleet Relief Channel (River Steeping)1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2006
- Wantsum1 sitelatest 19 May 2011
- Warwickshire Avon1 sitelatest 4 Apr 2002
- Wensum (central)1 sitelatest 10 Jul 2015
- West Fen Catchwater1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2008
Distribution
By ecology region
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire20 sites
- East Anglia14 sites
- West Midlands4 sites
- Wessex3 sites
- Kent, South London and East Sussex3 sites
- Hertfordshire and North London3 sites
- Yorkshire2 sites
- Thames1 sites
- Solent and South Downs1 sites
- Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly1 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