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http://dx.doi.org/10.17820/eri.2015.2.3.216

Augmentation and Monitoring of an Endangered Fish, Gobiobotia naktongensis in Naeseongcheon Stream, Korea  

Na, Jin-Young (Korea Water Resources Corporation)
Choi, Byoung-Seub (Korea Water Resources Corporation)
Hwang, Sang-Chul (Korea Water Resources Corporation)
Yang, Hyun (Institute of Biodiversity Research)
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Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure / v.2, no.3, 2015 , pp. 216-223 More about this Journal
Abstract
The conservation project to protect an endangered fish, Gobiobotia naktongensis was executed against declining the gene diversity of the fish after the construction of Youngju Dam in a sand-bed stream (Naeseongcheon Stream). We tried to move the populations of G. naktongensis from submerged planned sites to alternative habitats, bred artificially and augmented the juveniles to optimal habitat, and monitored the results of the restoration implementation. No entity of G. naktongensis was confirmed at the planned submerged sites despite attempting to capture more than 8 times and eventually the movement to alternative habitat could not be implemented. About 40 individuals of G. naktongensis were captured in the Naeseongcheon Stream and a total of 5,000 individuals were artificially spawned up. The population of juvenile inherited the genetic diversity from the brood stock. The bred juveniles were discharged at the selected optimal site that had a habit condition what was similar to their natural habitat. The micro-dispersion around the discharging area was found at the early stages of the augmentation. The re-capturing rate of discharged juveniles was reduced as time passed. The discharged juveniles seemed to adapt to the natural environment of Naeseongcheon Stream. The observation of their high abdominal distension and excrement demonstrated that the juveniles fed successfully in the discharging area. Therefore, securement of genetic homogeneity and enhancement of restoration population of G. naktongensis in upstream and downstream of Youngju Dam site from the artificial seed producing seemed to be primarily successful and long-term monitoring and analysis of the effect was expected to be necessary.
Keywords
Artificial seed production; Discharge; Gobiobotia Naktongensis; Species restoration; Stream bed materials;
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