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Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Lune?

Monitoring has recorded 13 species across 59 surveyed sites on this water, between 1981 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. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar55 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta49 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla37 siteslatest 16 Aug 2016
  4. BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 24 Sept 2025
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula4 siteslatest 24 Sept 2025
  6. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
  7. GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 24 Sept 2025
  8. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus3 siteslatest 24 Sept 2025
  9. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss3 siteslatest 25 Aug 2022
  10. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 29 Sept 2006
  11. European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 25 Jul 2014
  12. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 17 Aug 2002
  13. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 29 Sept 2006

Surveyed sites on this water

59 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