Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Irthing?
Monitoring has recorded 4 species across 12 surveyed sites on this water, between 2005 and 2024. 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 trutta9 siteslatest 14 Aug 2024
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 14 Aug 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 7 Sept 2005
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 7 Sept 2005
Surveyed sites on this water
12 shown, newest survey first
Ryeclose Farm
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 14 Aug 2024
River Irthing DS Paddaburn US ford
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 2024
Whitehill, River Irthing
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 2024
Gilsland, River Irthing
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 2 Jul 2018
R Irthing DS Butterburn Conf
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 11 Jul 2014
DS Butter Burn confluence
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 6 Oct 2005
US Waterfall
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 6 Oct 2005
Irthing Head
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 30 Sept 2005
DS Ford, River irthing
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 15 Sept 2005
Chapelburn, River Irthing
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2005
DS A6071 bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2005
Newby East
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2005
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