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River Ribble fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the River Ribble?

Monitoring has recorded 21 species across 46 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 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.

01 · Identity

River Ribble

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB104027057600 · GB112071065500 · GB112071065611 · GB112071065612 · GB112071065640 · GB112071071570 · +1 more
Catchments
River Calder catchment · River Ribble
02 · Survey breadth

46 sites · 190 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 23 Jul 2024

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
7 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
38 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 trutta32 siteslatest 23 Jul 2024
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar29 siteslatest 23 Jul 2024
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla17 siteslatest 27 Jun 2024
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus16 siteslatest 26 Jun 2024
  5. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus8 siteslatest 6 Sept 1994
  6. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri6 siteslatest 26 Jun 2024
  7. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 10 Sept 2009
  8. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus4 siteslatest 3 Aug 2009
  9. GraylingThymallus thymallus4 siteslatest 9 Aug 2018
  10. GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 27 Jun 2024
  11. BarbelBarbus barbus3 siteslatest 19 Aug 1994
  12. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss3 siteslatest 21 Aug 2006
  13. RoachRutilus rutilus3 siteslatest 6 Sept 1994
  14. BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 24 Jul 2014
  15. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus2 siteslatest 29 Aug 2003
  16. Pike varietiesEsox lucius2 siteslatest 13 May 1993
  17. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 17 Sept 2009
  18. Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 17 May 2012
  19. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 1 Sept 1992
  20. PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 1 Aug 2003
  21. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 12 May 1993

Surveyed sites on this water

46 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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