Birkin Brook
- EA ecology area
- Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire
- Waterbody IDs
- GB112069061340 · GB112069061370
- Catchments
- Mersey
Birkin Brook fishing evidence · Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire
What fish are in the Birkin Brook?
Monitoring has recorded 15 species across 4 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 and 2025. 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.
4 sites · 8 events
15 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.
Latest 24 Jul 2025
- Within 2 years
- 1 sites
- 3–5 years
- 0 sites
- 6–10 years
- 0 sites
- Older
- 3 sites
Permission is not established
Survey evidence carries no access boundary, permit, opening status, catch forecast or live safety signal. Resolve each before travelling.
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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.
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta3 siteslatest 24 Jul 2025
- BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 9 Oct 2018
- Stone loachBarbatula barbatula3 siteslatest 9 Oct 2018
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus2 siteslatest 9 Oct 2018
- PerchPerca fluviatilis2 siteslatest 28 Jun 2007
- Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss2 siteslatest 29 May 2012
- Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2007
- Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 24 Jul 2025
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 24 Jul 2025
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 30 Aug 2005
- GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 24 Jul 2025
- Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 9 Oct 2018
- Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae1 sitelatest 29 May 2012
- MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 9 Oct 2018
- RoachRutilus rutilus1 sitelatest 24 Jul 2025
Surveyed sites on this water
4 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