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Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Smithy Beck?

Monitoring has recorded 6 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 1991 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.

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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta9 siteslatest 21 Jun 2024
  2. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar6 siteslatest 21 Jun 2024
  3. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 13 Sept 2021
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 21 Jul 2016
  5. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 15 Aug 2008
  6. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 11 Jul 2007

Surveyed sites on this water

9 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