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Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys

What fish are in the River Wheelock?

Monitoring has recorded 19 species across 11 surveyed sites on this water, between 1994 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. GudgeonGobio gobio10 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  2. RoachRutilus rutilus10 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  3. 3-spined sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus9 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  4. ChubLeuciscus cephalus7 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  5. BullheadCottus gobio6 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  6. European eelAnguilla anguilla6 siteslatest 21 Jul 2005
  7. PerchPerca fluviatilis6 siteslatest 20 Aug 2024
  8. DaceLeuciscus leuciscus5 siteslatest 23 Aug 2005
  9. Stone loachBarbatula barbatula4 siteslatest 23 May 2014
  10. BitterlingRhodeus sericeus3 siteslatest 5 Jul 2006
  11. European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla3 siteslatest 5 Jul 2006
  12. Common breamAbramis brama2 siteslatest 14 Jun 2004
  13. BarbelBarbus barbus1 sitelatest 20 Aug 2002
  14. Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta1 sitelatest 21 Jul 1997
  15. European elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 14 Jul 2005
  16. Goby sp.Gobiidae1 sitelatest 30 Sept 1994
  17. MinnowPhoxinus phoxinus1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2006
  18. PikeEsox lucius1 sitelatest 28 Jun 2006
  19. Roach x common bream hybridRutilus rutilus x Abramis brama1 sitelatest 27 Jul 2001

Surveyed sites on this water

11 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