Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Borrow Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 3 species across 8 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 salar8 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 16 Oct 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 11 Jul 2013
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
Breasthigh Road, Borrow Beck
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 16 Oct 2025
U/S Bridge Nr Whinfell Common
- Survey events
- 24
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 16 Jul 2024
A685 Bridge
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 13 Aug 2007
Borrowdale Head
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 6 Aug 2007
High Borrowdale
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 2 Sept 2002
High House
- Survey events
- 3
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 2 Sept 2002
Low Borrowdale
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 28 Aug 1991
Near Barn
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 28 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