Environment Agency freshwater records

River Thames

Freshwater surveys recorded 25 named fish species across 89 reviewed monitoring locations between 1993 and 2025.

Data snapshot10 August 2026Latest survey in this dataset: 2025
Named species
25
Monitoring sites
89
Completed surveys
740
Survey coverage
19932025

Geographic coverage

EA monitoring locations

89 of 89 locations shown

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Positions are deliberately rounded. These are monitoring locations, not fishing access points.

Recorded diversity

Fish species recorded

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SpeciesSites recordedSurveys recordedLatest observation
Rutilus rutilus8372616 Oct 2025
Alburnus alburnus7970316 Oct 2025
View evidence page →Esox lucius7766016 Oct 2025
Leuciscus cephalus7765716 Oct 2025
Perca fluviatilis7765216 Oct 2025
Leuciscus leuciscus7357016 Oct 2025
Gobio gobio6139316 Oct 2025
Abramis brama6042914 Oct 2025
Anguilla anguilla4717024 Jul 2025
Tinca tinca4627416 Oct 2025
Barbus barbus4618616 Oct 2025
Abramis bjoerkna4517126 Sept 2025
Phoxinus phoxinus267116 Oct 2025
Gymnocephalus cernuus248324 Sept 2025
Cyprinus carpio226625 Jul 2025
Cottus gobio196316 Oct 2025
Salmo trutta194322 Jul 2025
Barbatula barbatula175016 Oct 2025
Scardinius erythrophthalmus152525 Jul 2025
Gasterosteus aculeatus91819 Oct 2016
Lampetra planeri6923 Sept 2014
Sander lucioperca679 Jul 2025
Leuciscus idus1115 Jul 2004
Thymallus thymallus1113 Oct 2010
Oncorhynchus mykiss1111 Jul 2016

“Recorded” means the species appears in an EA survey record. Site and survey totals show evidence coverage, not abundance.

Latest in the snapshot

Recent surveys

Hannington Bridge

12 taxon records: Chub, Perch, Roach, Dace, Bleak…

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Castle Eaton

12 taxon records: Perch, Roach, Chub, Dace, Pike…

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Cricklade

10 taxon records: Perch, Gudgeon, Chub, Pike, Dace…

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Eynsham- kings

9 taxon records: Bleak, Roach, Chub, Dace, Perch…

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Species evidence

Explore River Thames species records

Dedicated pages are published only where the survey evidence passes RiverFish eligibility rules.

Reviewed identity

What these records mean

Reviewed Upper Thames, TWARP and Middle Thames survey reaches plus the Dorney juvenile survey; coordinates and WFD IDs follow the non-tidal main river.

Survey methods, effort, locations and coverage vary. Monitoring coordinates are rounded and do not indicate public access. Counts are not population trends.

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