Black Esk
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB102077074460
- Catchments
- Border Esk
Black Esk fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the Black Esk?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 2002 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.
4 sites · 28 events
5 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 29 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 2 sites
- Older
- 1 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
Search current river conditions & alerts → Compare this evidence with another river → England coarse close season →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 29 Jul 2025
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar3 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
- European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 29 Jul 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 31 Jul 2007
Surveyed sites on this water
4 shown, newest survey first
DS of reservoir, Black Esk
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 29 Jul 2025
Todshaw Hill, Black Esk
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 2021
Tanlawhill, Black Esk
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 16 Aug 2021
Garwaldshiels, Black Esk
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 9 Sept 2004
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