Leuciscus idus · England
Where orfe / ide has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded orfe / ide at 25 sites across 16 waters, between 2002 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.
- River Hull4 siteslatest 9 Jun 2025
- River Don catchment3 siteslatest 2 Oct 2009
- Gade2 siteslatest 23 Jul 2004
- Lake Surveys2 siteslatest 6 Jan 2014
- Lincolnshire Lakes2 siteslatest 23 Jan 2008
- River Dearne2 siteslatest 19 Jun 2014
- Beverley and Barmston Drain1 sitelatest 28 Sept 2016
- Ember FAS1 sitelatest 9 Oct 2009
- Ewden Beck1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2015
- Irwell1 sitelatest 29 Jun 2004
- Little Don1 sitelatest 3 Aug 2007
- River Aire (Yorkshire)1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2008
- River Calder1 sitelatest 11 Jul 2002
- River Don1 sitelatest 2 Aug 2012
- River Hull eel surveys1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2017
- Streams to Humber1 sitelatest 30 Sept 2003
Distribution
By ecology region
- Yorkshire17 sites
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire2 sites
- Hertfordshire and North London2 sites
- East Anglia2 sites
- Kent, South London and East Sussex1 sites
- Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire1 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