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Preston Brook fishing evidence · West Midlands

What fish are in the Preston Brook?

Monitoring has recorded 9 species across 5 surveyed sites on this water, between 1993 and 2017. 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.

01 · Identity

Preston Brook

EA ecology area
West Midlands
Waterbody IDs
GB109054039550 · GB109054039560 · GB109054039590 · GB109054039610
Catchments
River Severn
02 · Survey breadth

5 sites · 15 events

9 positive taxa aggregates are shown. More survey coverage is not a fishing-quality verdict.

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 1 Aug 2017

Within 2 years
0 sites
3–5 years
0 sites
6–10 years
1 sites
Older
4 sites

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. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus5 siteslatest 1 Aug 2017
  2. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula5 siteslatest 1 Aug 2017
  3. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta4 siteslatest 25 Jul 2001
  4. BullheadCottus gobio4 siteslatest 1 Aug 2017
  5. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 1 Aug 2017
  6. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus3 siteslatest 1 Aug 2017
  7. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 26 Apr 1993
  8. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 30 Jul 1996
  9. PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 31 Oct 1995

Surveyed sites on this water

5 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