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North East · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Old Durham Beck?

Monitoring has recorded 10 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 2006 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.

  1. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 12 Jun 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio2 siteslatest 12 Jun 2025
  3. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2025
  4. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2025
  5. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2025
  6. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 12 Aug 2009
  7. GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2012
  8. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 11 Sept 2013
  9. River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2012
  10. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 12 Jun 2025

Surveyed sites on this water

3 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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