Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Rainford Brook?
Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 3 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 and 2022. 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.
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 22 Jun 2005
- 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 22 Jun 2005
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus1 sitelatest 22 Jun 2005
- European eelAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2022
- GudgeonGobio gobio1 sitelatest 23 Mar 2011
- RoachRutilus rutilus1 sitelatest 22 Jun 2005
- TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 7 Jun 2000
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