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River Goyt fishing evidence · Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire

What fish are in the River Goyt?

Monitoring has recorded 25 species across 27 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.

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

River Goyt

EA ecology area
Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire
Waterbody IDs
GB112069060850 · GB112069060880 · GB112069060910 · GB112069060960 · GB112069061000
Catchments
Mersey
02 · Survey breadth

27 sites · 144 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 10 Sept 2025

Within 2 years
14 sites
3–5 years
1 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
12 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. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta26 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio18 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  3. GraylingThymallus thymallus17 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  4. PerchPerca fluviatilis10 siteslatest 2 Sept 2025
  5. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula10 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  6. Brook lamprey ammocoetesLampetra planeri9 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  7. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus8 siteslatest 9 Jul 2025
  8. Atlantic salmonSalmo salar7 siteslatest 4 Sept 2025
  9. ChubLeuciscus cephalus7 siteslatest 6 Jul 2011
  10. Brook lampreyLampetra planeri6 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  11. GudgeonGobio gobio6 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  12. RoachRutilus rutilus6 siteslatest 1 Sept 2008
  13. BarbelBarbus barbus5 siteslatest 17 Aug 2009
  14. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus5 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  15. Rainbow troutOncorhynchus mykiss5 siteslatest 11 Aug 2009
  16. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus3 siteslatest 18 Aug 2005
  17. European eelAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 10 Sept 2025
  18. Lamprey sp.Petromyzontidae2 siteslatest 20 Jun 2013
  19. Lamprey sp. > ammocoetePetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 15 May 2002
  20. Lamprey sp. ammocoetesPetromyzontidae2 siteslatest 12 Sept 2007
  21. PikeEsox lucius2 siteslatest 8 Aug 2005
  22. BleakAlburnus alburnus1 sitelatest 10 Sept 2025
  23. Common breamAbramis brama1 sitelatest 6 Jul 2004
  24. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 7 Jun 2011
  25. RuffeGymnocephalus cernuus1 sitelatest 18 Jul 1994

Surveyed sites on this water

27 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
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