Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Fish in Europe

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
General considerations regarding the decline of species....Pages 1-7
Threatened freshwater fishes of Great Britain....Pages 9-21
Scottish natural heritage and fish conservation in Scotland....Pages 23-26
Endangered freshwater fish in Ireland....Pages 27-33
Endangered freshwater fish: The situation in France....Pages 35-54
Endangered freshwater fish of Spain....Pages 55-61
The Red Data List of the freshwater lampreys (Cyclostomata) and fish (Pisces) of Slovenia....Pages 63-72
Threatened freshwater fish in Hungary....Pages 73-77
Vanishing freshwater fish species of Slovakia....Pages 79-88
The status of the fish fauna in the Czech Republic....Pages 89-98
Endangered fishes of the River Morava (Czech Republic)....Pages 99-110
Long-term changes in the fish community of Neusiedler See (Burgenland, Austria)....Pages 111-120
Natural regenerations of endangered fish populations in the Pilica drainage basin after reducing human impacts....Pages 121-133
Fish conservation in Switzerland - three case-studies....Pages 135-145
The decline of the European sturgeon Acipenser sturio in the Baltic and North Sea....Pages 147-156
Occurrence and distribution of twaite shad (Alosa fallax Lacépède) in the lower Elbe River, Germany....Pages 157-170
Rehabilitation of salmon (Salmo salar L.) in Denmark; state, objectives and methods....Pages 171-179
The role of natural and artificial propagation on the genetic diversity of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) of the upper Rhône drainage....Pages 181-197
Cellulose acetate electrophoresis for screening transferrin polymorphism in brown trout ( Salmo trutta L.) populations....Pages 199-202
Decline and conservation of migrating brown trout ( Salmo trutta f. lacustris L.) of Lake Constance....Pages 203-211
The conservation ecology of Coregonus albula and C. lavaretus in England and Wales, UK....Pages 213-223
Gonadal abnormalities in Coregonus peled Gmel. Coregonus lavaretus L. hybrids, introduced into natural waters....Pages 225-232
Threatened populations and conservation of the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus (L., 1758)....Pages 233-247
Reproduction and habitat preference of the threatened spirlin (Alburnoides bipunctatus Bloch) and soufie ( Leuciscus souffia Risso) under laboratory conditions (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)....Pages 249-258
Distribution of YOY-barbel Barbus barbus (L.) in the River Sieg/Germany....Pages 259-267
Drift, habitat choice and growth of the nase ( Chondrostoma nasus , Cyprinidae) during early life stages....Pages 269-278
 Chondrostoma nasus - its reproduction strategy and possible reasons for a widely observed population decline - a review....Pages 279-285
Contribution to the knowledge of the distribution and spawning grounds of Chondrostoma nasus and Chondrostoma toxostoma (Pisces, Cyprinidae) in Switzerland....Pages 287-297
Spawning grounds of Chondrostoma soetta Bonaparte, 1840 (Cyprinidae) in Southern Switzerland....Pages 299-304
The artificial propagation and culture of young weatherfish (Misgurnus fossilis L.)....Pages 305-310
Description of Knipowitschia punctatissima croatica , (Pisces: Gobiidae), a new freshwater goby from Dalmatia, Croatia....Pages 311-319
The sculpin of the Lez spring (South France), Cottus petiti (Bacescu and Bacescu - Mester, 1964), one of the most threatened fish species in Europe....Pages 321-328
Conservation of samaruc, Valencia hispanica (Valenciennes, 1846), (Pisces: Cyprinodontidae), an endemic and endangered species, in the community of Valencia (east Spain)....Pages 329-335
Workshop I: Faunistic surveys and vulnerability assessments....Pages 337-338
Workshop II: Conservation of European mudminnow, Umbra krameri ....Pages 339-339
Workshop III: Management and rehabilitation of habitat of endangered fishes....Pages 340-341
Back Matter....Pages 342-344