Cumbria and Lancashire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Swanside Beck?
Monitoring has recorded 11 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1986 and 2026. 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 salar5 siteslatest 2 Jun 2026
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta5 siteslatest 2 Jun 2026
- European eelAnguilla anguilla5 siteslatest 2 Jun 2026
- Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 8 Aug 2023
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 2 Jun 2026
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 20 Sept 2019
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 7 Jul 2004
- GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 2 Jun 2026
- GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 18 Oct 2006
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 26 Jul 2011
- River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 3 Sept 2013
Surveyed sites on this water
5 shown, newest survey first
Smithies Bridge (A59)
- Survey events
- 27
- Observed taxa
- 11
- Latest survey
- 2 Jun 2026
Nr Cowgill Farm
- Survey events
- 8
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 12 Sept 2008
Nr Stopper Lane
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 31 Jul 2008
ptc Ings Beck
- Survey events
- 4
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 23 Sept 2003
U/S Railway Bridge
- Survey events
- 2
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 11 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