Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Ehen?
Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 25 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 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 salar25 siteslatest 23 Sept 2024
- European elversAnguilla anguilla24 siteslatest 23 Sept 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla23 siteslatest 23 Sept 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta21 siteslatest 23 Sept 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 11 Oct 2010
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 6 Sept 2018
Surveyed sites on this water
25 shown, newest survey first
Braystones
- Survey events
- 16
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 23 Sept 2024
DS High Waterside Farm CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2024
Braystones US Existing Site CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2024
DS Sewage Works CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 2024
DS Old Mill CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 13 Sept 2024
Middle Ehenside CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 13 Sept 2024
Briscoe Mill CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 2024
Rothersike CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 2024
DS Kersey Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 2024
At top end of Sellafield car park CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 2024
DS Scout camp, DS Ennerdale CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2024
Ennerdale Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2024
US Wathbrow CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2024
Wathbrow CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2024
DS River Keekle Conf. CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2024
Downstream Ennerdale Water
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 12 Sept 2023
Downstream of Scout camp
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 12 Sept 2023
Ennerdale Bridge #1
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 2023
Wathbrow
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2023
Briscoe Mill
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 2014
D/s Kersey Bridge, Rothersike, R Ehen
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 2014
Middle Ehenside
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 2014
High Waterside Farm
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 2014
Downstream River Keekle Confluence
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 12 Oct 2010
Rothersike
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 2008
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