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River Wharfe fishing evidence · Yorkshire

What fish are in the River Wharfe (Yorkshire)?

Monitoring has recorded 32 species across 29 surveyed sites on this water, between 1985 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.

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 Wharfe (Yorkshire)

EA ecology area
Yorkshire
Waterbody IDs
GB104027064010 · GB104027064251 · GB104027064252 · GB104027064253 · GB104027064280 · GB104027069290
Catchments
River Wharfe
02 · Survey breadth

29 sites · 224 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 30 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
2 sites
3–5 years
3 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
24 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 trutta23 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  2. ChubLeuciscus cephalus19 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
  3. GraylingThymallus thymallus18 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
  4. GudgeonGobio gobio18 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
  5. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus16 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  6. RoachRutilus rutilus15 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  7. PerchPerca fluviatilis14 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
  8. PikeEsox lucius14 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
  9. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula11 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  10. BarbelBarbus barbus10 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  11. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus10 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  12. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss10 siteslatest 4 Aug 2014
  13. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar9 siteslatest 22 Aug 2024
  14. BullheadCottus gobio9 siteslatest 30 Sept 2025
  15. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus8 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  16. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  17. Pike varietiesEsox lucius6 siteslatest 16 Jul 2014
  18. BleakAlburnus alburnus5 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  19. FlounderPlatichthys flesus5 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  20. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 11 Aug 2025
  21. Brown / sea trout x rainbow trout hybridSalmo trutta x Oncorhynchus mykiss3 siteslatest 29 Jul 1998
  22. Common breamAbramis brama3 siteslatest 9 Jul 2010
  23. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus3 siteslatest 9 Aug 2006
  24. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 24 Jun 2014
  25. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 1 Sept 2011
  26. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 1 Sept 2014
  27. TenchTinca tinca2 siteslatest 9 Jul 2010
  28. Brown / sea trout x salmon hybridSalmo trutta x Salmo salar1 sitelatest 24 Jun 2014
  29. Ghost carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 23 Jul 2002
  30. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 12 Aug 2024
  31. Right sided flatfish sp.Pleuronectidae1 sitelatest 1 Jul 2008
  32. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 1 Jul 2010

Surveyed sites on this water

29 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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