a total of 76 specimens of three fish species including: hemiculter lucisculus (41), liza auratus (16) and gasterosteus aculeutus (19) were caught using handnet from 3 station in zardi river in the south-eastern costal of caspian sea at autumn and winter 2009 and spring 2010. the fishes were transported alive to the laboratory of shahid rajaee site. they were killed by cutting their spinal cord...

in this study, the diversity and distribution of economical bony fishes in less-than-ten-meter depths, cpue and population features such as total length, weight and age were investigated in the southern part of the caspian sea in 1385-6. sampling was done in five regions: amir abad, larim, izdeh, kheyroud, and nashtarood with gilnet in mesh sizes of 26, 33, 40, 60, 100, and 150 mm. in total, 22...

Literature reviews of all references concerning the parasitic fauna of fishes in fish farms of Babylon province, middle of Iraq, showed that a total of 92 valid parasite species are so far known from the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella), and the silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) as well as from three freshwater fish species (Carassius auratus, Liza...

The study include the description of fish assemblage in Al- Saffia reservation during period March 2006 to February 2007. Sixteen osteichthyes species were obtained, highest number 13 was recorded July and lowest 7 November January. largest individuals collected obtained (212) (124). Four formed 71.02% Alburnus mossulensis 20.64 % Liza abu19.62 Barbus luteus16.13 Carassius auratus 14.46 %. annu...

The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of selected metal concentrations (Cd, Pb, Cr and Fe) in the muscles of five fish species (Sander lucioperca, Liza auratus, Alosa caspia, Cyprinus carpio and Liza saliens) from Gorgan Bay the south-eastern Caspian Sea, in order to assess health risk to the human via fish consumption by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotome...

Between January and August 2002, a total of 74 fishes belonging to nine species (Alburnus caeruleus, Barbus luteus, B. sharpeyi, Carassius auratus, C. carassius, Ctenopharyngodon idella, Cyprinus carpio, Hypophathalmichthys molitrix Liza abu) were collected from three fish farms south Baghdad. Twenty-six parasites observed.They following : Three protozoa ( Ichthyophthirius multifiliis , Trichot...