Yorkshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the R. Cover?
Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 2007 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 trutta4 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar3 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 26 Aug 2025
- Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 11 Jun 2007
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 2 Sept 2024
- GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 26 Aug 2025
- Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 26 Aug 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 26 Aug 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
4 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