Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Birker Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta4 siteslatest 21 Aug 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 21 Aug 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 21 Aug 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 21 Aug 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 28 Aug 2007
Surveyed sites on this water
4 shown, newest survey first
PTC River Esk #2, Birker Beck
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 21 Aug 2025
Birker Beck US Footbridge CPUE
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 26 Sept 2024
Birkerthwaite Farm, Birker Beck
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 Aug 1994
Whincop Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 Aug 1994
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