Black Beck (Cumbria and Lancashire)
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071400 · GB112074069850
- Catchments
- River Leven · South Lakes Minor Catchments
Black Beck fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the Black Beck (Cumbria and Lancashire)?
Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 and 2021. 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.
5 sites · 15 events
8 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 18 Aug 2021
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 1 sites
- Older
- 4 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
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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 trutta5 siteslatest 18 Aug 2021
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 20 Aug 2014
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 10 Sept 2015
- European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 20 Aug 2014
- FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 20 Aug 2014
- PerchPerca fluviatilis1 sitelatest 18 Aug 2021
- PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2015
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 3 Aug 2005
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Hawkshead
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 18 Aug 2021
U/s Strands Bridge, Black Beck
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 20 Aug 2014
Cragg Hall, Black Beck
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 20 Aug 2014
Beck Bank
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 4 May 1995
U/S Hallthwaite
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 4 May 1995
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