Sawley Weir Net
8 taxon records: Chub, Perch, Dace, Bleak, Roach…
Environment Agency freshwater records
River Trent
Freshwater surveys recorded 29 named fish species across 59 reviewed monitoring locations between 1991 and 2025.
Data snapshot10 August 2026Latest survey in this dataset: 2025
- Named species
- 29
- Monitoring sites
- 59
- Completed surveys
- 277
- Survey coverage
- 1991–2025
Geographic coverage
EA monitoring locations
59 of 59 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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| Species | Sites recorded | Surveys recorded | Latest observation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leuciscus cephalus | 52 | 227 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Rutilus rutilus | 52 | 224 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Leuciscus leuciscus | 51 | 208 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Gobio gobio | 50 | 179 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Perca fluviatilis | 50 | 174 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Phoxinus phoxinus | 47 | 167 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Barbatula barbatula | 44 | 104 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Cottus gobio | 39 | 105 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Gasterosteus aculeatus | 36 | 90 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Esox lucius | 32 | 74 | 29 Sept 2022 |
| Abramis brama | 31 | 97 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Anguilla anguilla | 28 | 43 | 4 Oct 2023 |
| View evidence page →Barbus barbus | 26 | 59 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Cobitis taenia | 21 | 41 | 4 Oct 2023 |
| Alburnus alburnus | 19 | 95 | 19 Sept 2025 |
| Salmo trutta | 14 | 36 | 3 Jun 2025 |
| Cyprinus carpio | 9 | 9 | 13 Oct 2009 |
| Gymnocephalus cernuus | 8 | 17 | 4 Oct 2023 |
| Abramis bjoerkna | 7 | 8 | 22 Sept 2016 |
| Tinca tinca | 7 | 8 | 2 Aug 2023 |
| Scardinius erythrophthalmus | 6 | 6 | 29 Sept 2022 |
| Thymallus thymallus | 5 | 7 | 13 Sept 2018 |
| Pungitius pungitius | 4 | 10 | 22 Sept 2022 |
| Lampetra planeri | 4 | 5 | 3 Jun 2025 |
| Platichthys flesus | 2 | 11 | 4 Sept 2025 |
| Pomatoschistus microps | 2 | 8 | 13 Oct 2017 |
| Sander lucioperca | 2 | 4 | 20 Sept 2016 |
| Salmo salar | 1 | 1 | 21 Sept 2021 |
| Carassius carassius | 1 | 1 | 19 Sept 2013 |
“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
Stoke Bardolph Net
10 taxon records: Roach, Common bream, Dace, Bleak, Gudgeon…
Muskham Bridge Net
6 taxon records: Dace, Barbel, Gudgeon, Roach, Chub…
Burton - Ferrybridge (match catch)
7 taxon records: Roach, Perch, Dace, Bleak, Chub…
Species evidence
Explore River Trent species records
Dedicated pages are published only where the survey evidence passes RiverFish eligibility rules.
Reviewed identity
What these records mean
Main stem confirmed across upper/middle parent 69 and lower parent 3500; WFD IDs and coordinates form a continuous Trent corridor.
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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