Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Cumbrian Esk?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 22 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 and 2025. These are survey records with dates. They do not establish what is present today, that the water is fishable, or that you have permission to fish it.
Recorded species
What monitoring has found here
Ordered by how many sites on this water recorded the species. A species not listed has not been recorded by these surveys — which is not the same as being absent.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta22 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar20 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 28 Aug 2007
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 11 Aug 2015
Surveyed sites on this water
22 shown, newest survey first
Golf course, River Esk
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 29 Sept 2025
Penny Hill Farm Track, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 29 Sept 2025
Downstream Whahouse Bridge, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 29 Sept 2025
Brotherilkeld, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 27 Aug 2025
Boot Church, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 2025
At Brotherikeld Farm CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2024
At Spout House Farm CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2024
At Boot Church CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2024
US Penny Hill Farm Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2024
DS Wha House Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2024
DS Cropple How Footbridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2024
PTC Linbeck CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2024
DS King George Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2024
Upstream Cowcove Gill (Downstream Falls),
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2013
Below Railway, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 30 Jul 2008
Fisherground Beck Bottom
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Jul 2007
Fisherground Beck Middle
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 17 Jul 2007
Fisherground Beck Top
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Jul 2007
Brantrake
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 26 Jul 2006
Cropple How, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 6 Aug 2002
PTC Linbeck Gill, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 6 Aug 2002
King George Bridge, Cumbrian Esk
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 29 Jul 1994
Provenance
Source and licence
- SourceEnvironment Agency Ecology & Fish Data
- LicenceOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Source copy retrieved23 Jul 2026
- Waterbody nameAs published by the Environment Agency
- Not assertedCurrent presence, access, permission, fishing quality or safety