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Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Irt?

Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 20 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta20 siteslatest 17 Oct 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar19 siteslatest 17 Oct 2025
  3. European elversAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 17 Oct 2025
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 17 Oct 2025
  5. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 21 Sept 2009

Surveyed sites on this water

20 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