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Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Etherow?

Monitoring has recorded 21 species across 17 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 and 2025. 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 trutta17 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  2. GudgeonGobio gobio14 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  3. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus14 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus12 siteslatest 2 Sept 2008
  5. RoachRutilus rutilus11 siteslatest 9 Jun 2025
  6. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula9 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  7. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus7 siteslatest 11 Aug 2023
  8. PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 21 Sept 2009
  9. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri5 siteslatest 21 Sept 2009
  10. BarbelBarbus barbus4 siteslatest 9 May 2006
  11. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae4 siteslatest 11 May 2010
  12. Brook lamprey > ammocoeteLampetra planeri3 siteslatest 11 Aug 2023
  13. BullheadCottus gobio3 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  14. Common breamAbramis brama3 siteslatest 9 May 2006
  15. GraylingThymallus thymallus3 siteslatest 11 Jun 2025
  16. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus2 siteslatest 8 May 2008
  17. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri1 sitelatest 4 Jun 2025
  18. Lampetra sp. ammocoetesLampetra1 sitelatest 11 Jun 2025
  19. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 21 May 2002
  20. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae1 sitelatest 9 May 2013
  21. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss1 sitelatest 21 Sept 2001

Surveyed sites on this water

17 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