UK BAP priority fish species (excluding purely marine species)

A list of the UK BAP priority fish species, and their occurence in the four UK countries is provided in the table below. In addition, the 'Original UK BAP species' column provides information on whether the species was on the original UK BAP list created between 1996 and 1998, or was added following the review of priority species and habitats (PDF, 1.3Mb) in 2007. All original species have Species action Plans (SAPs), species statements, or are included within grouped plans or statements, whereas there are, as yet, no published plans for the species added following the 2007 review.

Current scientific names and commonly used synonyms derive from the Nameserver facility of the National Biodiversity Network Species Dictionary, which is managed by the Natural History Museum. More detailed information about the distribution and taxonomy of these species can be found using the NBN Gateway, and details of Species Action Plans (SAPs) can be found on BARS.

JNCC have collated already-published information from a variety of sources for all of the UK BAP priority species, to bring these data together into a single report, or 'species account', for each species. All of this information is already available on either the JNCC website, the NBN Gateway, or the BARS website. More detail about the information within the species accounts is available here. Each individual species account can be accessed by selecting a name in the table below, or through the full list of priority species.

UK BAP priority fish species
Scientific name and link to species account	NBN common name	Taxon	England	Scotland	Wales	Northern Ireland	Original UK BAP species?
Acipenser sturio	Common Sturgeon	bony fish	Y	Y	N	Y
Alosa alosa	Allis Shad	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	Y	Yes – SAP
Alosa fallax	Twaite Shad	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	Y	Yes – SAP
Anguilla anguilla	European Eel	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	Y
Cobitis taenia	Spined Loach	bony fish	Y	N	N	N
Coregonus albula	Vendace	bony fish	Y	Y	N	N	Yes – SAP
Coregonus autumnalis	Pollan	bony fish	N	N	N	Y	Yes – SAP
Coregonus lavaretus	Whitefish (Powan, Gwyniad or Schelly)	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	N
Lampetra fluviatilis	River Lamprey	jawless fish	Y	Y	Y	Y
Lota lota	Burbot	bony fish	N	N	N	N	Yes – SAP
Osmerus eperlanus	Smelt (Sparling)	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	Y
Petromyzon marinus	Sea Lamprey	jawless fish	Y	Y	Y	Y
Salmo salar	Atlantic Salmon	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	Y
Salmo trutta	Brown/Sea Trout	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	Y
Salvelinus alpinus	Arctic Charr	bony fish	Y	Y	Y	N