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River Kent fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the River Kent?

Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 35 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.

01 · Identity

River Kent

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB112073071380 · GB112073071390 · GB112073071460
Catchments
River Kent
02 · Survey breadth

35 sites · 107 events

6 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 21 Oct 2025

Within 2 years
2 sites
3–5 years
15 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
18 sites

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 trutta34 siteslatest 21 Oct 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar30 siteslatest 21 Oct 2025
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 24 Jul 2024
  4. European elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 28 Jun 2024
  5. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 13 Sept 2006
  6. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss2 siteslatest 2 Aug 2004

Surveyed sites on this water

35 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
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