England · Environment Agency ecology
What has actually
been surveyed.
Every site the Environment Agency has electro-fished or netted, with the taxa each survey recorded and the date it recorded them. Pick a region to browse its sites. These are monitoring records, not a claim about who may fish or what is there now.
Choose a region
Survey sites by ecology region
Regions are the Environment Agency’s own ecology areas, not counties. Sites with no recorded taxa are not listed, because there would be nothing on the page.
Ecology region
Cumbria and Lancashire
2,412 survey sites
25 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionEast Anglia
1,913 survey sites
20 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionWest Midlands
1,779 survey sites
18 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionDevon and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
1,766 survey sites
18 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionYorkshire
1,436 survey sites
15 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionLincolnshire and Northamptonshire
1,174 survey sites
12 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionWessex
1,162 survey sites
12 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionNorth East
1,036 survey sites
11 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionThames
817 survey sites
9 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionSolent and South Downs
716 survey sites
8 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionGreater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire
594 survey sites
6 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionKent, South London and East Sussex
414 survey sites
5 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionHertfordshire and North London
409 survey sites
5 pages of recordsBrowse region →Ecology regionEast Midlands
347 survey sites
4 pages of recordsBrowse region →Before you fish
A survey record is not permission.
Environment Agency ecology data carries no fishing-rights boundary and no live restriction. A recorded species does not mean it is present now, that the water is fishable, or that you may fish it.
- Confirm the fishery owner and get permission.
- Hold a current rod licence where one is required.
- Check local byelaws, close seasons and safety notices.