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The effect of a high through-flow on the plankton of the reservoir Slapy?
Hrbáček, Jaroslav
In August 2003 an extraordinary intensive trough-flow has replaced the volume of water in the Slapy Reservoir in few days. Immediately a decrease of the transparency pH, frequency of planktonic crustaceans and an increase. In comparison with the previous years in the weeks following the flood an unusual increase of the frequency of blue greens mainly Microcystis and the diatoms Melosira a decrease of the diatom Fragillaria, and desmid Staurastrum was observed. As a possible cause decrease of pH and increase of total phosphorus has to be considered. As a possible cause of the decrease of the cladoceran Diaphanosoma and increase of species of Daphnia and Bosmina either the decrease of predation pressure by the export of fry due to the flood or the increase of food basis due to more intensive development of phytoplankton has to be considered. The effect of an exceptionally high through-flow on plankton is far from a dramatic one.
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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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Distribution and diversity of fish fry in different habitats of the Slapy reservoir
Kratochvíl, M. ; Kubečka, Jan ; Matěna, Josef
The fish fry assemblages of the Slapy reservoir (Czech Republic) were studied in May and June 2002. The aim of this study was to estimate diversity and distribution of fish fry in three habitats – epipelagic (depth 0 – 4 m), bathypelagic (depth 10 – 16 m) and littoral areas. Percids were present both in epipelagic and bathypelagic areas, while cyprinids preferred living in upper layers of the water column. During the dusk, bathypelagic fish started migration towards surface layers, throughout the dawn they returned back to the deeper layers. The highest densities of fish fry were observed in epipelagic zone during nighttime. Perch was revealed as the dominant fry species in Slapy reservoir, pikeperch was also abundant in the open water. Both during day and night, perch was usually the most common species in all habitats, cyprinids were most abundant in the littoral zone in May, only.
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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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