kol river drains into the persian gulf and its watershed encompasses  areas  in  hormozgan, kerman and fars provinces. identification of fish species of the river was conducted seasonally from summer to winter 2005. we selected 8 sampling stations based on the height of  sea  level  from branches of kol river near estuary. totally, 160 specimens were caught with gillnet, cast net and hook. we i...

this checklist aims to reviews and summarize the results of the systematic and zoogeographical research on the iranian inland ichthyofauna that has been carried out for more than 200 years. since the work of j.j. heckel (1846-1849), the number of valid species has increased significantly and the systematic status of many of the species has changed, and reorganization and updating of the publish...

This work highlights the role of otolithic morphometrics, shape indices and ultrastructure in the identification of three Mullidae species from the Red Sea. Differences in otolithic measurements were detectable in all three-goatfish species. The statistical analysis of otolithic morphometric parameters showed that otolithic measurements are good indicators of fish size. For all three species, t...

the catch composition of the bottom trawl fishery along the coasts of karataş was evaluated in the 2002-2003 fishing season. a total of 110 species were registered, the fishes showed the highest diversity (90 species) followed by 15 crustaceans species and 5 species of cephalopods. the highest catch per unit effort (cpue) value (66.8 kg h -1 ) was recorded in september when the fishing season w...

pollutants of various sources and nature, including heavy metals, find their way into the haraz river .cadmium (cd) and lead (pb) concentrations and their fluctuations in the tissues of several fish species in the lower part of the river were investigated. the fish samples were caught by using electroshoker. using f.test and anova indicated different but significant , concentration of,these hea...

The effects of the use of essential oil of Rosmarinus officinalis on the chemical quality and fatty acids of fish fillets of Ctenopharyngodon idella were investigated during frozen storage at -18 ºC for 6 months. Fish fillets were divided into three groups the control (C) without rosemary essential, the second group with 0.2 % rosemary essential oil (A) and the third with 0.4 % rosemary essenti...