Species list

Main freshwater fish species in England and Wales

Principle habit	Common¹	Rare¹	Introduced
Diadromous:	Eel Salmon Sea trout River lamprey Sea lamprey	Allis shad Houting ² Smelt Sturgeon Twaite shad
Freshwater residents:	Barbel Bleak ³ Bullhead Brook lamprey Brown trout Chub Common bream Common carp ⁵ Crucian carp ^{3 5} Dace Grayling Gudgeon Minnow Perch Pike Roach Rudd Ruffe ³ Silver bream ³ 3-spined stickleback 10-spined stickleback Stone loach Tench	Arctic char Burbot ² Powan/Schelly/Gwyniad Spined loach Vendace	American brook trout/Brook char Bitterling Catfish (Wels or Danubian) Catfish (Ictalurid) ⁶ Goldfish Grass carp ⁴ Ide/Orfe Koi carp/Ghost carp Largemouth bass ⁶ Pikeperch/zander Pumpkinseed ⁶ Rainbow trout Rock bass ⁶ Salmon (landlocked) ^{4 6} Silver carp ⁵ Sturgeon/Sterlet species ⁶ Sunbleak/Motherless minnow ⁶ Topmouth gudgeon ⁶
Marine: (enter lower reaches of rivers)	Bass Common goby Flounder Golden mullet Thick-lipped mullet Thin-lipped mullet

Footnotes:

Information on status of native British species is taken from Winfield, I., Fletcher,J. and Cragg-Hine, D. (1994) Status of Rare Fish - A literature Review of Freshwater Fish in UK. R&D Report 18, NRA, Bristol. 58pp.
Probably extinct in Britain
Classified as 'fairly common' (see footnote 1.)
Not thought to breed at any sites where they have been released into the wild
Probably introduced historically but now generally regarded to be widespread
Introduced species which currently have a limited distribution