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Sea trout, Brown trout

Salmo trutta

27,416Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
98Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan404
Feb107
Mar299
Apr650
May1,009
Jun2,590
Jul6,361
Aug6,830
Sep5,931
Oct1,740
Nov225
Dec355

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Powys Wales4,017
2Carmarthenshire Wales1,724
3Gwynedd Wales1,550
4Cumbria England1,436
5Devon England1,081
6North Yorkshire England1,037
7Ceredigion Wales1,019
8Cornwall England810
9Pembrokeshire Wales681
10Conwy Wales623
11Denbighshire Wales604
12Dorset England461
13Norfolk England446
14Gloucestershire England435
15Somerset England345
13,823 England735 Scotland12,629 Wales156 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
27,416
Peak month
August
Counties with records
98
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Salmo trutta
Also known as
Sea Trout
Group
Fish
NBN Atlas records since 2000
26,002
Conservation designations
Global Red List (JNCC), Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, Biodiversity List – England, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Salmoniformes
Family
Salmonidae
Genus
Salmo
Name with authority
Salmo trutta Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2857311 · GBIF 8215487