“Ukraine faces a critical situation: one of the most popular fish species – the golden crucian – disappears rapidly from many rivers. At the beginning of the XX century, the golden crucian was everywhere, but the situation changed with the advent of reservoirs and mass importation of silver crucian in the 1950s and 1960s. There is an opinion that the silver crucian displaced the golden that spawning requires freshly heated plants, told”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
Ukraine faces a critical situation: one of the most popular fish species – the golden crucian – disappears rapidly from many rivers.
At the beginning of the XX century, the golden crucian was everywhere, but the situation changed with the advent of reservoirs and mass importation of silver crucian in the 1950s and 1960s. There is an opinion that the silver crucian displaced the golden, which for spawning requires freshly heated plants, She told Ichthyology of the Institute of Zoology. II Schmalgauzen NAS of Ukraine Yulia Kutsokon by a telegraph.
Currently, the gold crucian has been preserved only in small quantities in the gums, floodplains and some other places.
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