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Salmonid and freshwater fisheries statistics: 2021

Fisheries statistics report and data tables for commercial and recreational fisheries in England and Wales.

Applies to England and Wales

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Fisheries statistics report and data tables for commercial net and trap fisheries capturing salmon, sea trout, eel, smelt and lamprey. Also includes recreational salmon and sea trout fisheries.

Includes declared catches for salmon, sea trout, eels, smelt and lamprey by rods, nets and other instruments.

See previous reports in the collection Salmonid and freshwater fisheries statistics: reports.

Updates to this page

Published 26 September 2022
Last updated 15 December 2023 + show all updates
  1. The report and data tables have been updated. Revisions have been made to the 2021 net data, data has been corrected in tables 3,4, 7, 8, 11,12, 28, 29, 34 and figure 6.

  2. Corrected the 'percentage released' figure for Ouse Yorkshire in table 13 - in both the HTML and data tables spreadsheet. Was given as 87%, should have been 100%.

  3. Corrections as follows: Table 3 data for 'licences issued' and 'sea trout caught' and the nets summary text; Table 4 data for 2021; Table 8 data for 2017; Wales sea trout net catches.

  4. Corrected errors in Figure 3 (2021 and 2026 prediction), Figure 4 (2026 prediction) and Table 5 (2020 numbers).

  5. First published.

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