Sprattus sprattus · England
Where sprat has been recorded
Environment Agency surveys have recorded sprat at 28 sites across 18 waters, between 1987 and 2014. 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.
- South Forty Foot Drain6 siteslatest 9 Sept 2010
- New Cut3 siteslatest 5 Oct 1987
- Relief Channel (East Anglia)3 siteslatest 24 Aug 2005
- South Dike FMU2 siteslatest 3 Sept 1992
- Anderby Main Drain FMU1 sitelatest 8 Jul 1992
- C&B Navigation (Long Pond)1 sitelatest 4 Oct 1989
- Frith Bank Drain1 sitelatest 7 Nov 1990
- Great Eau FMU1 sitelatest 25 Oct 1989
- Greyfleet Drain FMU1 sitelatest 19 Oct 1989
- Louth Canal1 sitelatest 8 Sept 1995
- Lower Parrett Dredge Surveys1 sitelatest 8 Aug 2014
- R.Ancholme Subcatchments1 sitelatest 2 Sept 1996
- Roding1 sitelatest 30 Jul 1993
- Skerth Drain1 sitelatest 11 Jul 1990
- South Fortyfoot Subcatchment1 sitelatest 23 Jul 1987
- South Holland Main Drain1 sitelatest 29 Sept 1997
- Steeping FMU1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2004
- Trader/Maud Foster Drain1 sitelatest 19 Jul 2011
Distribution
By ecology region
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire19 sites
- East Anglia7 sites
- Wessex1 sites
- Hertfordshire and North London1 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