Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the River Waver?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 2005 and 2012. 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.
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 7 Sept 2012
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta4 siteslatest 7 Sept 2012
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar3 siteslatest 6 Sept 2012
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 6 Sept 2012
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 7 Sept 2012
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
U/s Cowslaw Bridge, River Waver
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2012
Crookdake Mill, Crummock Beck
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2012
Abbeytown, Crummock Beck, Waver
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 7 Sept 2012
D/s Lessonhall Bridge, River Waver
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 6 Sept 2012
Lesson Hall New Bridge, Waver
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 5 Aug 2011
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