River Bela
- EA ecology area
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112073071070
- Catchments
- River Bela
River Bela fishing evidence · Cumbria and Lancashire
What fish are in the River Bela?
Monitoring has recorded 5 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1992 and 2024. 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.
5 sites · 25 events
5 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 1 Jul 2024
- Within 2 years
- 0 sites
- 3–5 years
- 3 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 2 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar5 siteslatest 1 Jul 2024
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta5 siteslatest 1 Jul 2024
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 1 Jul 2024
- European elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 1 Jul 2024
- European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 4 Jul 2022
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Gas Works
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 1 Jul 2024
D/S Beetham Weir
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 1 Jul 2024
D/S Hang Bridge
- Survey events
- 7
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 17 Jun 2022
Overthwaite
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 19 Oct 1995
A6 Layby, River Bela
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 2
- Latest survey
- 21 Sept 1995
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