Leucaspius delineatus · England
Where motherless minnow / sunbleak has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded motherless minnow / sunbleak at 43 sites across 22 waters, between 1991 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.
- Bridgwater / Taunton Canal9 siteslatest 19 May 1994
- Main River Axe (Devon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)7 siteslatest 27 Jul 2005
- Main River Parrett4 siteslatest 31 Jul 2014
- Huntspill/South Drain Catchment2 siteslatest 20 Apr 2023
- King's Sedgemoor Drain2 siteslatest 30 Jul 2014
- Main River Brue2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2011
- Sowy River2 siteslatest 29 Jun 2017
- Division Rhyne1 sitelatest 26 Jun 2006
- Durleigh Brook1 sitelatest 20 Jun 2017
- Goshall Stream1 sitelatest 1 Oct 2013
- Great Stour - main river1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2018
- Main River Isle1 sitelatest 23 Jun 2022
- Main River Sheppey1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2011
- Main River Tone1 sitelatest 14 Apr 2015
- Main River Yeo (Wessex)1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2008
- Mole - main river (Kent, South London and East Sussex)1 sitelatest 14 Oct 2015
- River Cary1 sitelatest 5 Jun 2025
- Shopham1 sitelatest 25 Oct 2013
- Shuttle1 sitelatest 26 May 2021
- Tetford Country Cottages1 sitelatest 10 Nov 2004
- Wantsum1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2015
- West Sedgemoor Main Drain Catchment1 sitelatest 1 Jun 2016
Distribution
By ecology region
- Wessex36 sites
- Kent, South London and East Sussex5 sites
- Solent and South Downs1 sites
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire1 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