Yorkshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Murk Esk?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 and 2024. 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 8 Oct 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta5 siteslatest 8 Oct 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 8 Oct 2024
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 24 Aug 2011
- River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 16 Oct 2017
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 16 Oct 2017
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
End of Track Riffle Site
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Oct 2024
US Eller Beck Riffle Site
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Oct 2024
Whinstone Cottages Riffle Site
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 8 Oct 2024
Murk Esk at Grosmont Riffle Site
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 7 Oct 2024
Murk Esk at Grosmont
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 12 Oct 2023
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