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Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Dane?

Monitoring has recorded 25 species across 30 surveyed sites on this water, between 1997 and 2024. 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. BullheadCottus gobio22 siteslatest 8 Jul 2024
  2. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus18 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  3. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula17 siteslatest 8 Jul 2024
  4. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta16 siteslatest 8 Jul 2024
  5. GudgeonGobio gobio16 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  6. ChubLeuciscus cephalus14 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  7. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus14 siteslatest 8 Jul 2024
  8. RoachRutilus rutilus14 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  9. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 25 May 2010
  10. PerchPerca fluviatilis8 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  11. BarbelBarbus barbus6 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  12. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 13 Jun 2006
  13. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla4 siteslatest 15 Jun 2006
  14. European eelAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 8 Jul 2024
  15. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 4 Jul 2024
  16. GraylingThymallus thymallus2 siteslatest 8 Jul 2024
  17. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 19 Sept 2009
  18. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss2 siteslatest 4 Aug 2003
  19. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus2 siteslatest 18 May 2023
  20. BitterlingRhodeus sericeus1 sitelatest 30 Jun 2008
  21. Common breamAbramis brama1 sitelatest 30 Jun 2008
  22. Pike varietiesEsox lucius1 sitelatest 22 Jul 2008
  23. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 14 Jun 2006
  24. Salmonid species1 sitelatest 1 Apr 2004
  25. Silver breamAbramis bjoerkna1 sitelatest 18 May 2023

Surveyed sites on this water

30 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