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Watton Beck fishing evidence · Yorkshire

What fish are in the Watton Beck?

Monitoring has recorded 18 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 2004 and 2022. 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.

01 · Identity

Watton Beck

EA ecology area
Yorkshire
Waterbody IDs
GB104026066980
Catchments
Hull and Humber Catchment
02 · Survey breadth

3 sites · 11 events

18 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 13 Oct 2022

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
2 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
1 sites

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 13 Oct 2022
  2. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  3. BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 12 Oct 2016
  4. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  5. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  6. GudgeonGobio gobio2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  7. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 6 Oct 2005
  8. PerchPerca fluviatilis2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  9. RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  10. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula2 siteslatest 13 Oct 2022
  11. ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 13 Oct 2022
  12. European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 9 Jun 2011
  13. GraylingThymallus thymallus1 sitelatest 13 Oct 2022
  14. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 12 Oct 2016
  15. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 11 Oct 2004
  16. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 11 Oct 2004
  17. PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2005
  18. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 6 Oct 2005

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