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River Sheaf fishing evidence · Yorkshire

What fish are in the River Sheaf?

Monitoring has recorded 7 species across 8 surveyed sites on this water, between 1986 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 Sheaf

EA ecology area
Yorkshire
Waterbody IDs
GB104027057750
Catchments
River Don catchment
02 · Survey breadth

8 sites · 36 events

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

03 · Freshness by site

Latest 20 Aug 2025

Within 2 years
1 sites
3–5 years
2 sites
6–10 years
0 sites
Older
5 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 trutta8 siteslatest 20 Aug 2025
  2. BullheadCottus gobio5 siteslatest 20 Aug 2025
  3. PerchPerca fluviatilis2 siteslatest 1 Sept 2005
  4. RoachRutilus rutilus2 siteslatest 29 Aug 2007
  5. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2005
  6. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula1 sitelatest 30 Aug 2005
  7. TenchTinca tinca1 sitelatest 1 Sept 2005

Surveyed sites on this water

8 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