Environment Agency freshwater records

River Tyne

Freshwater surveys recorded 15 named fish species across 30 reviewed monitoring locations between 1995 and 2025.

Data snapshot10 August 2026Latest survey in this dataset: 2025
Named species
15
Monitoring sites
30
Completed surveys
51
Survey coverage
19952025

Geographic coverage

EA monitoring locations

30 of 30 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
Anguilla anguilla23378 Aug 2025
Barbatula barbatula22408 Aug 2025
Salmo trutta20358 Aug 2025
Phoxinus phoxinus20338 Aug 2025
Salmo salar16348 Aug 2025
Cottus gobio15238 Aug 2025
Gasterosteus aculeatus15168 Aug 2025
Leuciscus leuciscus8138 Aug 2025
Leuciscus cephalus8118 Aug 2025
Gobio gobio8106 Aug 2025
Rutilus rutilus3326 Nov 2024
Lampetra fluviatilis2216 Oct 2010
Lampetra planeri1215 Jul 2004
Perca fluviatilis1126 Nov 2024
Scardinius erythrophthalmus1126 Nov 2024

“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

River Tyne At Corbridge

10 taxon records: Atlantic salmon, Brown / sea trout, European eel, Lamprey sp., Chub…

dc electric fishing

River Tyne at Ovingham

8 taxon records: Atlantic salmon, European eel, Chub, Dace, Gudgeon…

dc electric fishing

River Tyne At Hagg Farm, Wylam

6 taxon records: Atlantic salmon, Brown / sea trout, European eel, Lamprey sp., Dace…

dc electric fishing

Howdene burn

3 taxon records: Brown / sea trout, European eel, 3-spined stickleback

dc electric fishing

Reviewed identity

What these records mean

Main Tyne below the North/South Tyne confluence. North Tyne and South Tyne parent groups are deliberately excluded.

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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