Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Irk?
Monitoring has recorded 3 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 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.
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus3 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
- RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 26 Sept 2025
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta1 sitelatest 30 Apr 2004
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