Fish Found in and around Folkestone in Kent

There are 40 species of fish found within a five mile radius of Folkestone. Some might be infrequent visitors, recent additions or may not have been seen for many years.

List of Fish found in Folkestone


Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
Bream (Abramis brama)
Butterfish (Pholis gunnellus)
Chub (Squalius cephalus)
Common Goby (Pomatoschistus microps)
Dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)
Eel (Anguilla anguilla)
Flounder (Platichthys flesus)
Grayling (Thymallus thymallus)
Greater sand-eel (Hyperoplus lanceolatus)
Minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus)
Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
Roach (Rutilus rutilus)
Roker (Raja clavata)
Sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus)
Shanny (Lipophrys pholis)
Snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus)
Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Whiting (Merlangius merlangus)
Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta)
Bib (Trisopterus luscus)
Bullhead (Cottus gobio)
Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
Cod (Gadus morhua)
Common dragonet (Callionymus lyra)
Dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Five-bearded rockling (Ciliata mustela)
Goldsinny (Ctenolabrus rupestris)
Greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus)
Leopard-spotted goby (Thorogobius ephippiatus)
Perch (Perca fluviatilis)
Poor cod (Trisopterus minutus)
Rock goby (Gobius paganellus)
Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)
Sea scorpion (Taurulus bubalis)
Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus)
Tench (Tinca tinca)
Tompot blenny (Parablennius gattorugine)
Worm pipefish (Nerophis lumbriciformis)