Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Birk Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 3 species across 7 surveyed sites on this water, between 1981 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar7 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta7 siteslatest 19 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 27 Aug 2013
Surveyed sites on this water
7 shown, newest survey first
Scout Green, Birk Beck
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 19 Aug 2025
D/S Bretherdale Beck Nr Low Scales Farm
- Survey events
- 26
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 4 Jul 2024
Steps
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 2 Aug 2007
Shap Wells
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 22 Aug 1991
Greenholme
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 1991
Salterwath
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 1991
Sheperds Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 1991
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