North East · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Northern Burns?
Monitoring has recorded 12 species across 24 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 and 2019. 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 trutta20 siteslatest 20 Jun 2019
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus19 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 25 Sept 2017
- European elversAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 22 Sept 2017
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula9 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
- European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus6 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 5 Sept 2016
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus4 siteslatest 25 Sept 2017
- BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 21 Jun 2019
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 25 Jul 2010
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 30 Aug 2015
Surveyed sites on this water
24 shown, newest survey first
River Lyne at Ellington
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 Jun 2019
River Lyne at Tritlington
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 Jun 2019
River Lyne at Ulgham
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 21 Jun 2019
Long Nanny at Below Ellingham Church
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 20 Jun 2019
Long Nanny at Newham Bridleway
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 20 Jun 2019
Long Nanny at Swinhoe Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 20 Jun 2019
Long Nanny at Tuggall Grange
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 20 Jun 2019
South Low D/S of Haggerston barns weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2017
South Low U/S of Haggerston barns weir
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2017
Seaton Burn
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2017
Seaton Burn at Annitsford
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2017
Seaton Burn at Holywell
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2017
Seaton Burn at Seghill
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 22 Sept 2017
South Low at Low Lynn
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 11 Sept 2017
North Low at Bridge Mill farm.
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2016
Waren Burn at Spindlestone
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2016
Howick Hall
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 1 Sept 2015
Brunton Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 30 Aug 2015
Embleton Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 30 Aug 2015
Belford Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 29 Aug 2015
Newlands Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 29 Aug 2015
Waren Burn at Warenford
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 29 Aug 2015
Fenham Burn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 28 Aug 2015
South Low at Brockmill Farm
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Sept 2014
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