A FishForLife project team, coordinated by Dr. Istvan Falka, conducted a new scientific fishing campaign on Gilort River and its main tributaries between 15 and 17 July, 2019. The action is part of A3 action - Survey of the population status of target fishes and macroinvertebrate species in Gilort River.Target species of the project were identified among the species captured by electrofishing and released, namely the Golden spined loach (Sabanejewia aurata), the Brook Lamprey (Eudontomyzon mariae), the White-Finned Gudgeon (Gobio albipinnatus) and the Mediterranean Barbel (Barbus meridionalis). Some of the fishing points were: upstream the confluence of Gilort
Year: 2019
TVR Project Presentation
The FishForLife project was presented within The Wild Kingdom show, realized by the Romanian Television and broadcast on several stations belonging to it (TVR1, TVR3, TVR International), but also on the TVR + online platform. This can be watched in the video below.
Invertebrate Monitoring
At the beginning of June 2019, the FishForLife project implementation team carried out a second campaign to take biological samples of benthic macronoinvertebrates from the Gilort River drainage basin. The first campaign took place in September 2018 and included 8 sampling points.Laboratory processing of the samples collected in the first campaign led to the identification of 12 major groups of aquatic macronoinvertebrates, namely: Gastropoda, Oligochaeta, Nematoda, Turbellaria, Hydrachnidia, Crustacea (Amphipoda), Coleoptera, Diptera (with families: Athericidae, Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae, Empididae, Limoniidae, Simuliidae, Tabanidae, Tipulidae, Dolicopodidae), Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera and Trichoptera.
Completion of feasibility studies
The feasibility studies for the two fish passages to be carried out within the FishForLife project have been completed. The two sites where the fish passages will be made are located in Albeni and Targu Carbunesti, near the road bridges over Gilort River. In the two points, in 2014 two spillway thresholds were built that do not allow upstream migration of fish species targeted by our project.
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