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Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Dean?

Monitoring has recorded 14 species across 19 surveyed sites on this water, between 1996 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.

  1. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta14 siteslatest 22 Sept 2022
  2. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula12 siteslatest 14 Jun 2013
  3. BullheadCottus gobio9 siteslatest 21 Oct 2013
  4. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 18 Sept 2002
  5. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus7 siteslatest 14 Jun 2013
  6. ChubLeuciscus cephalus6 siteslatest 14 Jun 2013
  7. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 14 Jun 2013
  8. RoachRutilus rutilus5 siteslatest 14 Jun 2013
  9. GudgeonGobio gobio4 siteslatest 20 Jun 2008
  10. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri2 siteslatest 15 Aug 1996
  11. European eelAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 22 Sept 2022
  12. GraylingThymallus thymallus2 siteslatest 18 Sept 2002
  13. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 21 Aug 2003
  14. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 21 Oct 2013

Surveyed sites on this water

19 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