Yorkshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Swale (Yorkshire)?
Monitoring has recorded 22 species across 35 surveyed sites on this water, between 1984 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.
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus29 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus25 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- GraylingThymallus thymallus24 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
- BarbelBarbus barbus19 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta19 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
- GudgeonGobio gobio19 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- PikeEsox lucius18 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
- RoachRutilus rutilus16 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
- PerchPerca fluviatilis12 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar10 siteslatest 7 Aug 2025
- RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus10 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio7 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula6 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 17 Aug 2023
- BleakAlburnus alburnus5 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
- Common breamAbramis brama2 siteslatest 10 Aug 2002
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 6 Jul 2022
- Freshwater species1 sitelatest 21 Jul 2005
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 22 Jul 2024
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 7 Aug 2003
- Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 16 Sept 1997
Surveyed sites on this water
35 shown, newest survey first
Maunby - Fry Survey
- Survey events
- 22
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2025
Skipton-on-Swale
- Survey events
- 15
- Observed taxa
- 15
- Latest survey
- 7 Aug 2025
Brafferton
- Survey events
- 22
- Observed taxa
- 17
- Latest survey
- 30 Jul 2025
Maunby Demesne Upper Site
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 15
- Latest survey
- 30 Jul 2025
Myton Grange
- Survey events
- 12
- Observed taxa
- 16
- Latest survey
- 24 Jul 2025
Hoggarths
- Survey events
- 17
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 4 Sept 2024
Morton-on-Swale
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2010
Leckby
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 2 Jul 2010
Thornton Bridge - Fry Survey
- Survey events
- 24
- Observed taxa
- 14
- Latest survey
- 1 Sept 2009
Brompton-on-Swale, Thornborough Farm
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 8
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2007
Langton Bridge
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2007
Catterick
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 9 Aug 2005
Colburn (Broken Brae Caravan Park)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2005
Ellerton
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 8 Aug 2005
Kiplin
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2005
Swalefields
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2005
Tancred Grange
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 4 Aug 2005
Langton Grange
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2005
Baldersby
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2005
Catton
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2005
Ainderby Quernhow
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2005
Danotty Hall
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2005
Holme
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 10
- Latest survey
- 1 Aug 2005
Maunby Railway Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 2005
Topcliffe Caravan Park
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 28 Jul 2005
Richmond
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 27 Jul 2005
Far Fairholme
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 26 Jul 2005
Fawdington
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 9
- Latest survey
- 21 Jul 2005
Thornton Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 20 Jul 2005
Low Whitta
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 7 Jun 2005
u/s Topcliffe Weir (Gill Net)
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2004
u/s Topcliffe Weir (Electric Fishing)
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 12 Aug 2003
Maunby Demesne
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 2000
d/s Wiske
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 6
- Latest survey
- 22 Jul 1997
Skipton - Fry Survey
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 7
- Latest survey
- 19 Sept 1996
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