River Leven
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071420
- Catchments
- River Leven
River Leven fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the River Leven?
Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 18 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 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.
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.
18 sites · 123 events
9 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 25 Sept 2024
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 3 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 15 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
Search current river conditions & alerts → Compare this evidence with another river → England coarse close season →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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar18 siteslatest 25 Sept 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta18 siteslatest 25 Sept 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla14 siteslatest 25 Sept 2024
- European elversAnguilla anguilla12 siteslatest 25 Sept 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla10 siteslatest 1 Sept 2022
- PerchPerca fluviatilis5 siteslatest 5 Sept 2023
- RoachRutilus rutilus5 siteslatest 5 Sept 2023
- PikeEsox lucius2 siteslatest 2 Oct 2014
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 3 Oct 2014
Surveyed sites on this water
18 shown, newest survey first
DS Swan Hotel CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Sept 2024
120m US White Water LEVDP12
- Survey events
- 14
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2023
Newby Bridge LEVDP1
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 5 Sept 2023
Low Wood LEVDP19
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 3 Oct 2014
Linsty Green - LEVDP10
- Survey events
- 11
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 3 Oct 2014
Chaplin B1 LEVDP9
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 2 Oct 2014
Chaplin 1A - LEVDP6
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 2 Oct 2014
Far End of Island LEVDP5
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 2 Oct 2014
200m US Gauging Weir - LEVDP2
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 2 Oct 2014
50m US Backbarrow. Bridge A - LEVDP16
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 25 Jul 2013
80m US Backbarrow Footbridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 25 Jul 2013
D/s Backbarrow Turbines LEVDP14
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 17 Sept 2007
Upstream Whitewater #1
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 2002
Upstream Low Wood Bridge
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 2002
90 US White Water Road Bridge - LEVDP13
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2000
Railway Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 10 Sept 1996
D/S Backbarrow
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 1996
Upstream Whitewater #2
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 12 May 1993
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