Skip to main content

Auxiliary menu

  • Contact us

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Youtube
Home

Main navigation

  • Plan your visit
    The Brockholes Visitor Village seen from across Meadow Lake during summer

    The Brockholes Visitor Village seen from across Meadow Lake during summer. Ben Hall/2020VISION

    Come and explore our wonderfully wild region; we have over 40 Nature Reserves and other places to visit.

    • Plan your visit
      • Opening hours
      • Places to eat
        • Kestrel Kitchen, Brockholes
        • Mere Sands Wood Café
        • Pavilion Café at Queens Park
        • The Café at Moss Bank Park
      • Accessible nature reserves
      • Dog-friendly nature reserves
      • Family-friendly days out
      • Parking pass
    • Places to visit
      • Brockholes
      • Mere Sands Wood
      • Lunt Meadows
      • The Hive at Moss Bank Park
      • Find your nearest nature reserve
    • School trips
    • What's on
      • Things to see and do this month
      • Events for families
        • Artisan Markets
        • Manchester Festival of Nature
        • Nature Tots
      • Events for adults
      • Walks
      • Talks
        • Wild LIVE
      • Events calendar
      • Event FAQs
  • Plan your event
    Declan and Rachel by Sam Sanders

    Declan and Rachel by Sam Sanders

    By booking your event with us you are actively helping us to restore and protect nature across the north west.

    • Conferences and events
    • Weddings at Brockholes
      • Wedding gallery
      • Room options
      • Menu options
      • How to book
      • Wedding events
  • Learn
    Blue tit by Joshua Copping

    Blue tit by Joshua Copping

    We are working tirelessly for nature's recovery on land and at sea across Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside.

    • About us
    • Our Work
      • Working for nature's recovery
        • Peatland restoration
        • Protecting nature reserves
        • Nature Recovery Networks
        • Bringing wildlife back
        • Fylde Sand Dunes Project
        • Marine protection
        • Our Irish Sea
        • Making a home for declining willow tits
        • Red Squirrel Recovery Network
      • Campaigning
        • #VoteWildlife: Our priorities for the next UK Government
        • Defend Nature
        • Planning applications
      • Connecting people with nature
        • Nature and wellbeing
        • Education and learning
        • Connecting to Nature
        • In Your Community
      • Contracting and consultancy
        • Building with Nature
      • Nature based solutions
    • News
    • Blog
    • Wildlife
      • Habitats
      • Latest sightings
      • Seasonal wildlife
      • Species A-Z
      • Wildlife guides
  • Get Involved
    Matthew Pennington looking at the scenery during his trek

    Matthew Pennington

    Could you do something really special to help nature thrive? Start fundraising today and help us fight for brighter future for wildlife.

    • At home
      • Take Action for nature where you live
        • Wildlife guides
        • Green living
        • Help a Hog
        • Peat Action Pack
      • Photography competition
      • My Wild Garden
    • At work
      • Biodiversity Net Gain
      • Business Partnership
      • Employee Volunteering
      • Workplace wellbeing
    • With us
      • Campaigns
      • Careers
      • Commercial Opportunities
      • Volunteer
        • Local Groups
        • Volunteering Opportunities
        • Volunteering at home
      • Youth Council
    • Fundraise for us
    • 30 Days Wild
  • Support Us
    Harvest mouse Amy Lewis

    We receive zero government funding and rely on our members and grants to support our charitable activities.

    • Membership
      • Buy a membership for you or someone else
      • Business Partnership
      • Manage your membership
        • Membership enquiries
        • Switch to an eco membership
    • Leave a gift in your Will
    • Remember a loved one
      • Gifts in memory
      • Our memory trees
    • Ways to donate
      • Our biggest ever appeal
      • Make a general donation
      • Fundraise for us
      • My Wild Garden Award
      • Play the Wildlife Lottery
    • Adopt a species
  • DONATE
  • JOIN
  • KEEP IN TOUCH

You are here:

  1. Home
  2. Wildlife Explorer
  3. Marine
  4. Fish - including sharks, skates and rays

Species

Fish - including sharks, skates and rays

Bluefin tuna

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

A Montagu's blenny lurking by an underwater patch of barnacles

Montagu's blenny

Painted goby

Painted goby

Two spot goby

Two spotted goby

Shore rockling

Shore rockling

red mullet

Red mullet

Montagu's sea snail

Montagu’s sea snail

Lesser weever

Lesser weever fish

Flounder

European flounder

Clingfish

Shore clingfish / Cornish sucker

Long spined sea scorpion

Long spined sea scorpion

Giant goby

Giant goby

worm pipefish

Worm pipefish

ballan wrasse

Ballan wrasse

Corkwing wrasse

Corkwing wrasse

Thresher shark leaping from the water

Thresher shark

Large-spotted catshark

Nursehound

Blonde ray

Blonde ray

Spotted ray

Spotted ray

cuckoo ray

Cuckoo ray

Undulate ray

Undulate ray

Spurdog

Spurdog shark

Porbeagle shark

Porbeagle shark

Mackerel

Mackerel

Red gurnard

Red gurnard

Short-snouted seahorse

Short-snouted seahorse

Spiny seahorse, the Wildlife Trusts

Long-snouted seahorse

Seabass

European seabass

Black sea bream

Black sea bream

Blue shark

Blue shark

Sand eels

Sand eel

Basking shark

Basking shark

Tope shark

Tope shark

Small-spotted catshark

Small-spotted catshark

Thornback ray

Thornback ray

Butterfish

Butterfish

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Next page ››
  • Last page Last »
Footer decal

Our Promise

  • Supporter Care Charter (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/support-us/about-our-fundraising)
  • Privacy Statement (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/privacy-statement)
  • Complaints Procedure (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/about-us/make-complaint)
  • Safeguarding (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/about-us/safeguarding)

Governance

  • How we are run (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/about-us/how-we-are-run)
  • Our Trustees (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/about-us/how-we-are-run/trustees)
  • Annual Reviews (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/about-us/annual-reviews)
  • Our History (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/about-us/our-history)

Work With Us

  • Careers (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/jobs)
  • Volunteering (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer)
  • Filming, Photography & Using our Sites (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/photography-our-reserves)
  • Businesses (https://www.lancswt.org.uk/support-us/get-involved-your-business)
Home

The Lancashire Wildlife Trust is a Registered Charity (No. 229325) and a Registered Company Limited by Guarantee (00731548)