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Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Hodder?

Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 28 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.

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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar24 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta24 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla21 siteslatest 2 Aug 2018
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 31 Aug 2004
  5. GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 22 Aug 2025
  6. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2014
  7. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 9 Aug 2010
  8. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 4 Jul 2023

Surveyed sites on this water

28 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