Greater Manchester Merseyside and Cheshire · Environment Agency surveys
What fish are in the Woolston Fish Trap?
Monitoring has recorded 8 species across 9 surveyed sites on this water, between 2001 and 2011. 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.
- Atlantic salmonSalmo salar9 siteslatest 12 Dec 2011
- Brown / sea troutSalmo trutta8 siteslatest 6 Oct 2011
- ChubLeuciscus cephalus6 siteslatest 6 Oct 2011
- PerchPerca fluviatilis3 siteslatest 14 Sept 2010
- European elversAnguilla anguilla2 siteslatest 1 Sept 2010
- DaceLeuciscus leuciscus1 sitelatest 8 Nov 2002
- European eels > elversAnguilla anguilla1 sitelatest 27 Oct 2006
- River lampreyLampetra fluviatilis1 sitelatest 9 Nov 2002
Surveyed sites on this water
9 shown, newest survey first
2011
- Survey events
- 16
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 12 Dec 2011
2010
- Survey events
- 18
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 6 Oct 2010
2009
- Survey events
- 5
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 6 Nov 2009
2008
- Survey events
- 23
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 11 Dec 2008
2007
- Survey events
- 40
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 14 Dec 2007
2006
- Survey events
- 22
- Observed taxa
- 5
- Latest survey
- 1 Dec 2006
2005
- Survey events
- 10
- Observed taxa
- 3
- Latest survey
- 4 Nov 2005
2002
- Survey events
- 49
- Observed taxa
- 4
- Latest survey
- 22 Nov 2002
2001
- Survey events
- 19
- Observed taxa
- 1
- Latest survey
- 30 Nov 2001
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