River Gowan
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071410
- Catchments
- River Kent
River Gowan fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the River Gowan?
Monitoring has recorded 2 species across 12 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 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.
12 sites · 31 events
2 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 2 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 3 sites
- 6–10 years
- 1 sites
- Older
- 7 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
Search current river conditions & alerts → Compare this evidence with another river → England coarse close season →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 trutta12 siteslatest 2 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar7 siteslatest 9 Jul 2024
Surveyed sites on this water
12 shown, newest survey first
High Borrans Farm
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 2 Jul 2025
River Gowan, PTC River Kent CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 9 Jul 2024
Dubbs Beck u/s Dubbs Reservoir
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 26 Jun 2023
Dubbs Beck Site 2
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 19 Jun 2023
Gowanbank
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 2017
Dubbs Beck Site 1
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2003
Dubbs Beck Site 3
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2003
Gowan At St Ley
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 24 Aug 1999
Gowan High Hse
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 1999
Gowan Wooden Hs
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 23 Aug 1999
Grassgarth
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 9 Aug 1999
Slaughter House
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 9 Aug 1999
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