Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Colton Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 and 2023. 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 trutta8 siteslatest 13 Jul 2023
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 13 Jul 2023
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar2 siteslatest 12 Jul 1994
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 16 Sept 2019
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 22 Jul 2022
Surveyed sites on this water
8 shown, newest survey first
D/S Beckside Farm
- Survey events
- 6
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 2023
Midway - Bandrake & Colton
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2015
Bandrake Head
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 3 Aug 2015
Meadows
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1994
Oxen Park
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1994
Stockwood
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 13 Jul 1994
Waste Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 12 Jul 1994
Colton Beck Bridge
- Survey events
- 1
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 8 Jul 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