North East · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Gaunless?
Monitoring has recorded 13 species across 13 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 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 trutta13 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio11 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus8 siteslatest 25 Sept 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula8 siteslatest 25 Sept 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 25 Sept 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 16 Jul 2017
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 5 Oct 2023
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 14 Jul 2017
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 29 Aug 2013
- GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 14 Jul 2017
- River lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 4 Aug 2011
Surveyed sites on this water
13 shown, newest survey first
River Gaunless at The Slack
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2025
River Gaunless Spring Garden u/s flood defence
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2025
River Gaunless at Spring Garden
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2025
River Gaunless at Fylands Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 5 Oct 2023
River Gaunless at Hummer Beck
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 5 Oct 2023
River Gaunless at South Church
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 5 Oct 2023
River Gaunless u/s of Spring Garden
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 2 Oct 2023
River Gaunless at Evenwood
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 27 Sept 2023
River Gaunless at Lowlands
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 27 Sept 2023
River Gaunless at Copley
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2023
Hummer Beck at Hummer Beck Farm
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2023
River Gaunless at Auckland Castle
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 16 Jul 2017
River Gaunless at Ramshaw
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 2011
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