A freshwater fish inventory was conducted from March through August, 2002 in the Alagnak Watershed. The objectives of the inventory were (1) to document species that were expected yet undocumented and (2) to provide initial descriptions of the distributions, abundance, and biologic characteristics of these species. Minnow traps, minnow seines, beach seines, snorkel gear, hand nets, fyke nets, t...

Background: The northern pike Esox lucius is a fresh water species belonging to the Esocidae family. It is a carnivorous fish which mostly feeds on invertebrates and fishes. The morphology of its intestine is very useful for understanding the fish’s digestive physiology, diagnosing some intestinal diseases and formulating suitable feeds. OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to determine the anat...

Abstract The habitat quality of the littoral zone is key importance for almost all lentic fish species. In anthropogenically created gravel pit lakes, often structurally homogenized with limited habitats. We supplemented deadwood brush piles in eight lakes and investigated diurnal seasonal use this other typical microhabitats by six dominant Shoreline habitats were sampled using point abundance...

Pike (Esox lucius) samples were obtained from the designated locations of Sıdıklı Küçükboğaz Dam Lake between March 2012 and February 2013. Some heavy metal concentrations (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cr Al) in muscle, liver, skin, intestine gills this fish measured by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) device it was observed that metals accumulated at different levels tissues pike. Heavy concentra...

Increasing evidence suggests that stocking northern pike Esox lucius has had limited success, especially when age-0 fish are stocked into water bodies where the recruitment of northern pike already occurs. To better understand the ecology of wild and stocked fry, we investigated the dispersal, growth, and food composition of advanced pike fry (∼30 mm) stocked at a high density at a common relea...