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Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Calder?

Monitoring has recorded 27 species across 73 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta66 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla28 siteslatest 29 Aug 2025
  3. ChubLeuciscus cephalus24 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  4. GudgeonGobio gobio23 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  5. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar21 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  6. PerchPerca fluviatilis20 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  7. RoachRutilus rutilus20 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  8. BullheadCottus gobio17 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  9. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula15 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  10. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus14 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  11. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus12 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  12. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla11 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  13. GraylingThymallus thymallus11 siteslatest 29 Aug 2025
  14. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus11 siteslatest 14 Aug 2025
  15. BarbelBarbus barbus10 siteslatest 15 Aug 2024
  16. PikeEsox lucius10 siteslatest 24 Jun 2024
  17. Common breamAbramis brama4 siteslatest 4 Jul 2012
  18. European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 31 Aug 2023
  19. Pike varietiesEsox lucius3 siteslatest 20 Sept 2007
  20. Common carp varietiesCyprinus carpio2 siteslatest 23 Apr 1985
  21. 10-spined sticklebackPungitius pungitius1 sitelatest 18 Aug 2014
  22. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2024
  23. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2024
  24. Chub x dace hybridLeuciscus cephalus x Leuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 11 Jul 2003
  25. Orfe / IdeLeuciscus idus1 sitelatest 11 Jul 2002
  26. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 4 Jul 2012
  27. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 27 Jul 1999

Surveyed sites on this water

73 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