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River Caldew fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the River Caldew?

Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 29 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 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.

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

River Caldew

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB102076073710 · GB102076073720 · GB102076073780 · GB102076073880 · GB102076073940
Catchments
River Eden
02 · Survey breadth

29 sites · 79 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 5 Aug 2024

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
22 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
7 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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar27 siteslatest 5 Aug 2024
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta25 siteslatest 5 Aug 2024
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 14 Jun 2023
  4. European eelAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 7 Aug 2006
  5. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2023
  6. ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 30 Mar 2004
  7. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 30 Mar 2004

Surveyed sites on this water

29 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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