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Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Wyre?

Monitoring has recorded 18 species across 26 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 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.

  1. European eelAnguilla anguilla24 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar22 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  3. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta21 siteslatest 22 Sept 2025
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus18 siteslatest 28 Jun 2023
  5. European elversAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 14 Aug 2017
  6. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus6 siteslatest 25 Jul 2016
  7. GudgeonGobio gobio6 siteslatest 16 Aug 2022
  8. FlounderPlatichthys flesus5 siteslatest 25 Jul 2016
  9. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri4 siteslatest 25 Jul 2016
  10. PikeEsox lucius4 siteslatest 7 Jul 2010
  11. RoachRutilus rutilus4 siteslatest 25 Jul 2016
  12. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 16 Aug 2022
  13. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus2 siteslatest 7 Jul 2010
  14. BullheadCottus gobio1 sitelatest 16 Aug 2022
  15. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 16 Aug 2022
  16. PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 31 Aug 2010
  17. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 25 Jul 2016
  18. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 16 Aug 2022

Surveyed sites on this water

26 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