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Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the Manchester Ship Canal?

Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 20 surveyed sites on this water, between 2010 and 2011. 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. PerchPerca fluviatilis14 siteslatest 5 Apr 2011
  2. GudgeonGobio gobio10 siteslatest 5 Apr 2011
  3. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 5 Apr 2011
  4. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus4 siteslatest 5 Apr 2011
  5. Common breamAbramis brama3 siteslatest 5 Apr 2011
  6. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 5 Apr 2011
  7. RoachRutilus rutilus1 sitelatest 5 Apr 2011
  8. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 5 Apr 2011
  9. RuddScardinius erythrophthalmus1 sitelatest 5 Apr 2011

Surveyed sites on this water

20 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
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