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Sutela, Tapio; Vehanen, Teppo; Huusko, Ari; Mäki-Petäys, Aki
Hydrobiologia, 02/2017, Volume: 787, Issue: 1Journal Article
Collated electrofishing data from wadeable riffles of boreal rivers in Finland revealed a substantial shift in the fish assemblage composition, accompanied by a decline in total fish density and a reduction in species richness from early summer to late autumn. As the major changes in fish assemblages, the density of cyprinids decreased sharply from June towards autumn, whereas salmonids peaked in September. These shifts were considered to originate mainly from spawning migrations, fish movements to winter refuge habitat and other temperature-related responses of rheophilic versus eurytopic fish species. Temporal change in fish assemblages induced a prominent variation in the monthly fish-based index values used for bioassessment. The proportion of sampled sites classified as high or good in ecological status within the Water Framework Directive (WFD) based on fish increased from 25.9% in July to 68.3% in October. These results, combined with the observed timing of young of the year (0+) fish recruitment to electrofishing catch, suggest that sampling of fish in boreal rivers for WFD monitoring should be restricted to a considerably shorter period than the prevailing practice in order to avoid temporal bias.
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