Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Hindburn?
Monitoring has recorded 4 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1981 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 trutta8 siteslatest 21 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 27 Aug 2021
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar4 siteslatest 27 Aug 2021
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 21 Aug 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Helks Bank Farm D/S Stairend Bridge
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 2025
Bridge House Farm Tea Rooms
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 27 Aug 2021
U/S habitat fencing
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 13 Sept 2016
D/S habitat fencing
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 14 Oct 2003
D/S Hindburn Bridge
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 10 Jul 2002
D/S Botton Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 14 Oct 1997
Furness Ford Bridge
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 19 Jul 1991
D/S Mealbank Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 1991
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