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Cumbrian Esk fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

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.

River evidence passport

Four signals, kept deliberately separate.

The passport shows identity, survey breadth, evidence freshness and trip constraints without turning unlike facts into an opaque “best river” score.

01 · Identity

Cumbrian Esk

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB112074069930 · GB112074069960
Catchments
Cumbrian Esk
02 · Survey breadth

22 sites · 66 events

6 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 29 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
5 sites
3–5 years
8 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
9 sites

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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta22 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar20 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  4. European elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 29 Sept 2025
  5. European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 28 Aug 2007
  6. Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 11 Aug 2015

Surveyed sites on this water

22 shown, newest survey first

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
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