Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Lowther?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar9 siteslatest 19 Jul 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 19 Jul 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 19 Jul 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 3 Aug 2007
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 10 Aug 2009
Surveyed sites on this water
9 shown, newest survey first
Thorney Bank, River Lowther
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 19 Jul 2024
DS Wet Sleddale CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 19 Jul 2024
Keld CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 2024
Bampton Grange CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 18 Jul 2024
Knipe CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 17 Jul 2024
DS Whale Road Bridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 26 Jun 2024
River Lowther at Whale
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 2022
River Lowther Showfield
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 2022
River Lowther US Swindale Foot
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 25 Jul 2022
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