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River Petteril fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the River Petteril?

Monitoring has recorded 14 species across 21 surveyed sites on this water, between 1975 and 2026. 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 Petteril

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB102076073991 · GB102076073992 · GB102076074030
Catchments
River Eden
02 · Survey breadth

21 sites · 96 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 13 May 2026

Within 2 years
1 sites
3–5 years
6 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
13 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 trutta21 siteslatest 13 May 2026
  2. European eelAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 22 May 2018
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla9 siteslatest 13 May 2026
  4. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar8 siteslatest 13 May 2026
  5. European elversAnguilla anguilla8 siteslatest 20 Jun 2024
  6. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae6 siteslatest 30 Apr 2013
  7. BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 18 Jun 2024
  8. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 20 Jun 2024
  9. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus4 siteslatest 14 Jun 2022
  10. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus3 siteslatest 23 May 2022
  11. GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 4 Jul 2018
  12. Lampetra sp.Lampetra2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2022
  13. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 20 Jun 2024
  14. TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 6 Jul 2004

Surveyed sites on this water

21 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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