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Black Brook fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire

What fish are in the Black Brook?

Monitoring has recorded 28 species across 29 surveyed sites on this water, between 1983 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

Black Brook

EA ecology area
Cumbria and Lancashire
Waterbody IDs
GB104027062570 · GB104028047070 · GB104028047100 · GB104028052900 · GB105036041000 · GB105037041320 · +4 more
Catchments
Mersey · RIVER TRENT · River Calder catchment · River Ribble · +4 more
02 · Survey breadth

29 sites · 196 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 11 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
4 sites
3–5 years
5 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
20 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 trutta27 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio13 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  3. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 18 May 2012
  4. RoachRutilus rutilus8 siteslatest 11 Sept 2013
  5. ChubLeuciscus cephalus7 siteslatest 11 Sept 2013
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 11 Sept 2013
  7. PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 11 Sept 2013
  8. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 24 Apr 2012
  9. GudgeonGobio gobio5 siteslatest 24 Apr 2012
  10. PikeEsox lucius5 siteslatest 11 Sept 2013
  11. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 13 Sept 2021
  12. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri4 siteslatest 4 Jun 2024
  13. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 27 Jan 2010
  14. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae3 siteslatest 6 Sept 2018
  15. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus3 siteslatest 19 Jul 2016
  16. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 16 Jun 2022
  17. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar1 sitelatest 23 Jul 2025
  18. BarbelBarbus barbus1 sitelatest 9 May 2006
  19. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 15 Sept 2011
  20. Common [wild] carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 26 Jun 2003
  21. Crucian carpCarassius carassius1 sitelatest 21 Jun 2005
  22. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2013
  23. Golden goldfishCarassius auratus1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2011
  24. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 21 Jun 2013
  25. Mirror carpCyprinus carpio1 sitelatest 25 Jun 2003
  26. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 25 Jun 2008
  27. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 3 Dec 1998
  28. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 25 Jun 2002

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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