Balfour Mains
Ore GB-SCT SEPA
Balfour Mains (SEPA-14894) is a real-time streamflow monitoring station on the Ore in GB-SCT, operated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Riverbot tracks its streamflow and alerts anglers the moment flow and temperature hit their fishing window. 10 fish species are associated with this station in public fish records.
- SEPA station ID
- SEPA-14894
- Operated by
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Country
- GB-SCT
- Coordinates
- 56.1847, -3.0816
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Fish recorded near this station
Expected in this watershedBalfour Mains (SEPA-14894) has 10 fish species documented via GBIF occurrence records within 10 km of the gauge (Tier D evidence). These records indicate fish presence in the vicinity.
Species include: Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758), Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758, Lampetra Bonnaterre, 1788, Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784), Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792), and 5 others.
- Stone Loach Barbatula barbatula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pike Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758
- Lamprey Sp. Lampetra Bonnaterre, 1788
- Brook Lamprey Lampetra planeri (Bloch, 1784)
- Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
- Sea Lamprey Petromyzon marinus Linnaeus, 1758
- Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar Linnaeus, 1758
- Brown/Sea Trout Salmo trutta Linnaeus, 1758
- Salmonids Salmonidae
Where these records come from
- Evidence
- Expected in this watershed
- Range maps place these species in this watershed; no local survey has confirmed them at this station.
- Records
- 10 species
- from 10 individual records
- Observed
- Sep 11, 1791 – Sep 11, 2026
- 10 dated records
Sources
- GBIF occurrence search – EU freshwater fish orders — 10 records