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River Esk fishing evidence · Yorkshire

What fish are in the River Esk?

Monitoring has recorded 19 species across 48 surveyed sites on this water, between 1999 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.

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 Esk

EA ecology area
Yorkshire
Waterbody IDs
GB104027068070 · GB104027068080 · GB104027068090 · GB104027068100 · GB104027068110 · GB104027068120 · +4 more
Catchments
River Esk
02 · Survey breadth

48 sites · 193 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 2 Oct 2025

Within 2 years
3 sites
3–5 years
24 sites
6–10 years
3 sites
Older
18 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta47 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar43 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  3. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula14 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  4. European eelAnguilla anguilla12 siteslatest 25 Sept 2024
  5. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar11 siteslatest 24 Sept 2024
  6. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  7. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae10 siteslatest 30 Aug 2011
  8. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus9 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  9. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra7 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  10. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 17 Oct 2018
  11. Lampetra sp.Lampetra3 siteslatest 11 Oct 2023
  12. Lampetra sp. > ammocoeteLampetra3 siteslatest 2 Oct 2025
  13. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 5 Oct 2018
  14. GraylingThymallus thymallus2 siteslatest 24 Sept 2011
  15. River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis2 siteslatest 17 Oct 2017
  16. River lamprey ammocoetesLampetra fluviatilis2 siteslatest 17 Oct 2017
  17. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 4 Oct 2017
  18. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 4 Oct 2017
  19. BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 24 Sept 2024

Surveyed sites on this water

48 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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