Bar racks are commonly installed to divert fish away from water intakes, such as those at hydropower stations or other abstraction points. In temperate regions their effectiveness has predominantly been assessed in relation diadromous species, salmon and eel. This study compared the efficacy of horizontally vertically oriented (5 mm diameter 10 spacing) guide downstream moving groups five chub ...

To test the hypothesis that different species have similar responses to local and regional environmental constraints, we modelled the occurrences of 13 species using a data set of 413 undisturbed river reaches. Three environmental descriptors were considered at the local scale (river slope, river width, and upstream drainage area) and three at the regional scale (mean annual and mean range air ...

Abstract Migration patterns and habitat use of adult barbel ( Barbus barbus ) nase Chondrostoma nasus were monitored by radio telemetry over a period 13 months along 58-km-long section the Austrian part Danube River. The study site is confined upstream downstream two hydropower plants, contains larger tributary, Pielach Telemetry transmitters implanted into fish caught in this tributary after s...

 The concentrations of Cd, Pb, Ni and Hg were determined in gill, liver and muscle of Barbus xanthopterus in down streams of Karoon and Dez Rivers during summer 2009. Heavy metal concentrations varied significantly, depending on the types of the tissue in fish species. The levels of heavy metals such as Cd, Pb, Ni and Hg in the Barbus xanthopterus of Karoon River were higher than in B...