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Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Bollin?

Monitoring has recorded 31 species across 43 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 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.

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. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula37 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  2. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus34 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  3. GudgeonGobio gobio27 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  4. BullheadCottus gobio25 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  5. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta23 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  6. ChubLeuciscus cephalus23 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  7. RoachRutilus rutilus22 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  8. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus15 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  9. PerchPerca fluviatilis12 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  10. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus11 siteslatest 13 Aug 2025
  11. European eelAnguilla anguilla11 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  12. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla7 siteslatest 9 Sept 2025
  13. BarbelBarbus barbus4 siteslatest 22 Jul 2025
  14. GraylingThymallus thymallus4 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  15. PikeEsox lucius4 siteslatest 25 Oct 2006
  16. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 21 Sept 2022
  17. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 23 Jul 2025
  18. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar1 sitelatest 3 Aug 2010
  19. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2025
  20. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 13 Aug 2025
  21. Common breamAbramis brama1 sitelatest 7 Aug 2006
  22. Feral [brown] goldfishCarassius auratus1 sitelatest 15 Sept 2022
  23. FlounderPlatichthys flesus1 sitelatest 17 Aug 2011
  24. Lampetra sp.Lampetra1 sitelatest 16 Jul 2025
  25. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 23 Jul 2025
  26. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 23 Jun 2008
  27. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 3 Nov 1993
  28. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 15 Jul 2005
  29. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 26 Jun 1996
  30. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 15 Sept 2008
  31. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 14 Sept 2022

Surveyed sites on this water

43 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