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What do the fish say about the quality of aquatic ecosystems
Blabolil, Petr ; Říha, Milan ; Peterka, Jiří ; Prchalová, Marie ; Vašek, Mojmír ; Jůza, Tomáš ; Čech, Martin ; Draštík, Vladislav ; Kratochvíl, Michal ; Muška, Milan ; Tušer, Michal ; Frouzová, Jaroslava ; Ricard, Daniel ; Mrkvička, Tomáš ; Sajdlová, Zuzana ; Vejřík, Lukáš ; Šmejkal, Marek ; Borovec, Jakub ; Matěna, Josef ; Boukal, David S. ; Kubečka, Jan
The first Czech methodology for the assessment of ecological potential of heavily modified water bodies and artificial water bodies based on fish communities was developed. The first step of developing the methodology was preparing the typology of water bodies. The typology distinguishes between water bodies of different altitudes and with and without thermal stratification. Fish were sampled by multimesh gillnets following European standard procedures. The selection of fish metrics was based on statistical analyses in which metrics (fish community indicators) were correlated with the most common stressor – eutrophication. The analysis detected several sensitive metrics (metrics showing the best correlation with the stressor) in which ecological class boundaries were set. Afterwards, combination of sensitive metrics was used for calculation of the ecological quality ratio (EQR) for each of the reservoir sampled. The EQR expresses the deviation between a reservoir’s current ecological status and its maximum potential. The next step consisted of validating the EQR with an independent pressure index and verifying the time stability of ecological potential assessment. The metrics used in the methodology fulfill all the obligations set forth in the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), which include assessment of the composition, abundance and age structure of fish fauna.
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Monitorování rybích obsádek údolních nádrží v České republice – výsledky prvního roku sledování
Peterka, Jiří ; Čech, Martin ; Frouzová, Jaroslava ; Draštík, Vladislav ; Vašek, Mojmír ; Prchalová, Marie ; Matěna, Josef ; Kubečka, Jan ; Jůza, Tomáš ; Kratochvíl, Michal
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How shall we study the fish stock of our large water reservoirs?
Kubečka, Jan ; Matěna, Josef ; Čech, Martin ; Draštík, Vladislav ; Frouzová, Jaroslava ; Hohausová, Eva ; Jarolím, Oldřich ; Jůza, Tomáš ; Kratochvíl, Michal ; Muška, Milan ; Peterka, Jiří ; Prchalová, Marie ; Říha, Milan ; Tušer, Michal ; Vašek, Mojmír
Quantitative fish stock assessment recently advanced significantly in the Czech Republic. Sampling of open water was facilitated by application of scientific echosounders, trawls, Nordic multimesh gillnets, purse seines and booming electoshockers. Simplified combination of the above methods was recommended for the monitoring of larger stagnant water the Water Framework Directive of EU. Combination of all above approaches with more classic ones (beach seining, benthic gillnets) is being used for „complex fish stock assessment“ providing the assessment of abundance, biomass, species and age composition of all important species in all important habitats of the reservoirs. Further improvements of results is likely to be achieved by the application of multibeam acoustic cameras and by mitigation of the problems connected with quantitative trawling of large fish
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Fish stock of the Orlík Reservoir after first years of operation of Temelín Nuclear power plant
Kubečka, Jan ; Čech, Martin ; Říha, Milan ; Jůza, Tomáš ; Frouzová, Jaroslava ; Draštík, Vladislav ; Hladík, Milan ; Kratochvíl, Michal ; Prchalová, Marie ; Tušer, Michal ; Vašek, Mojmír
The fish stock of the Orlik reservoir, Czech Republic was surveyed by shore seining and scientific echosounder (Simrad EY 500). Reservoir was dominated by cyprinids (roach, bream) with considerable share of predatory fish and perch. Inshore biomass an abundance was 302 kg/ha and 3920 inds/ha respectively. Populations show sustainable recruitment without variation of year class strength. The open water biomass estimated by hydroacoustics was 145.5 kg/ha. Assuming hydrological conditions of light flood in June 2004 it was not possible to trace any changes of the fish stock of the reservoir connected with the operation of the Temelin nuclear power station.
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Sampling of the offshore fry fish communities of reservoirs by trawls
Jůza, Tomáš ; Kubečka, Jan ; Čech, Martin ; Draštík, Vladislav ; Jarolím, Oldřich ; Peterka, Jiří ; Vašek, Mojmír
The offshore area of six Czech reservoirs was sampled by pelagic fry trawl in late summer in 2003-2005. In Římov, Želivka, Vrané and Slapy reservoirs cyprinids dominated in offshore area. The main species here were roach, bream and bleak. In Lipno and Nýrsko reservoirs percids dominated in offshore area (Lipno-pikeperch, Nýrsko-perch). Trawling in offshore areas revealed that almost all 0+ fish were caught in the surface stratum (0-3m depth). In reservoirs where percids and cyprinids occured together, cyprinids dominated in 0-3m depth while percids usually prevailed in catches of 0+ fish from 3-6m depth. In ordinary canyon-shaped reservoir like Římov and Želivka the 0+ fish abundance decreased from the upstream end toward the dam, so the biggest abundance was in tributary area. In cascade reservoirs like Slapy and Vrané, the offshore area in tributary is almost without fish. The peak of abundance is more downstream and from this place, the trend is similiar to non-cascade reservoirs.
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Complex assessment of the fish assemblage of the Želivka reservoir, the biggest water supply reservoir in the ČR, in years 2004 and 2005
Prchalová, Marie ; Kubečka, Jan ; Jůza, Tomáš ; Říha, Milan ; Jarolím, Oldřich ; Tušer, Michal ; Peterka, Jiří ; Vašek, Mojmír
In the summer 2004 and 2005, the complex assessment of the fish assemblage of the Želivka reservoir (1432 ha) was carried out by gillnetting, adult and fry seining, adult and fry pelagic trawls and hydroacoustic sampling. Detailed picture of the fish assemblage was composed from every fishing gear from every depth strata of the open water as well as from the littoral zone. During two-years survey, 40.168 fish of 19 species and one hybrid were captured. The fish assemblage was dominated by cyprinid species in both years – bleak prevailed in the open water together with roach and bream; perch was abundant in the littoral zone. The assemblage of the Želivka reservoir was found to be in the stable cyprinid phase. The average abundance was 1.700 ind/ha and average biomass was 110 kg/ha. In the fish spatial distribution, the general gradients could be found – higher abundance and number of species in the tributary area and in the epilimnion and littoral.
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Giant traps for fishing in the inflow-zone of the Římov reservoir
Hladík, Milan ; Kubečka, Jan ; Pokorný, P. ; Čech, Martin ; Draštík, Vladislav ; Kratochvíl, Michal ; Peterka, Jiří ; Prchalová, Marie ; Vašek, Mojmír
The fish stock of the inflow-zone of the Římov Reservoir was studied by using two special constructed big traps. One trap was sampling the fish migrating from the reservoir to the Malse River, the other was sampling downstream migrants. The most intensive fish movement was recorded during spring spawning season. Proportionally to the fish stock of the reservoir, the tributary zone was used mainly by the bleak, .i.Alburnus alburnus./i., Asp, .i.Aspius aspius./i. and roach .i.Rutilus rutilus./i.. Smaller affinity to tributary spawning was found for the bream .i.Abramis brama./i. and perch, .i.Perca fluviatilis./i. (5 to 10 % of reservoir fish spawning in the tributary). Over 6000 kg of migrating fish were captured in the tributary area during spring periods of three years. Consequences of the application of tributary traps for fish exploitation and management are being discussed.
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Effect of catastrophic flooding on the composition of the fish stock of the Římov reservoir
Kubečka, Jan ; Prchalová, Marie ; Hladík, Milan ; Vašek, Mojmír ; Říha, Milan
In 2002, great flood occurred in the Římov reservoir. Fish stock of the reservoir was sampled before and after the flood by night beach seinings, pelagic and benthic gillnets, traps and electrofishing of spawning shoals of common bream. The fluctuations of most species (roach, bream and their hybrid, perch, ruffe, bleak, white bream, asp, pikeperch, eel, catfish) were random and can be attributed to interhabitat migrations rather to the effect of flooding. The share of certain species (carp, tench, goldfish, trout, dace, gudgeon) increased as they were flushed from ponds and fishing grounds in the catchment. Increased share of these species was detected in the spring 2003, while during August, the share of flooded fish decreased near to the usual level. The ‘climax’ cyprinid dominated fish stock proved itself to be very resistant to the extreme flood.
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