Fishes of Lac des Aiguilles
In Lac des Aiguilles , especially conceived for fishing, with a varied watery fauna, tens of tons of fish were put out of water. Spawning grounds, tops funds, and splits, nothing misses for the development and the life of fishes.
The repopulation of the species is regular, with a control of stocking with fish,
an analysis and a follow-up of the watery resource,
as well as a permanent monitoring of the potential fishes.
The veterinary services issued the health certificates for the various released species.
The surface of the lake is approximately 25 ha.
The principal varieties of Carps are represented (specimens from 6 to 25 kg).
Esturgeons (very combative fish) can exceed 20 kg.
Without forgetting Silures , Black-bass , and
white fish also present.
Lac des Aiguilles is a true Ornithology reserve.
Part of the lake is in concerning the reproduction and it is a haven
of peace for the migratory birds which are your companions of the happy days.
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The Common Carp
Origin
The carp (Cyprinus carpio) is originating in Eastern Europe. It would have been imported into Western Europe by the Romans. It was already common in France to the Average Age where it was high in the monasteries.
Description
The wild carp is a fish with which the body is covered with scales, brownish color, on the back with reflections gilded on the sides. It has 4 barbillons (what differentiates it from the carassin which counts only two of them). There are many carp races obtained by selection in the breedings and being characterized by the shapes from the body, the number and the provision of the scales, or the more or less fast performances of growth. The royal carp is characterized by the high form from the body an almost total absence from scales and performances from growth which make the type of the most required carpus of it today.
The Black-bass
Origin The black-bass (Micropterus salmoïdes) is originating in the United States of America. It was introduced in Western Europe at the end of last century. Currently, there exists in many water where it is acclimatized perfectly. |
Description
The body is of form oblonge and squat aspect with a rather long caudal stalk. The head strong with a jaw lower is prognathe equipped with large lips. The back of color green-is bronzed somore, the sides are green-olive, moucheté of black, the belly is yellowish and sometimes white. Broad band more or less continuous black traverses the sides of the muzzle at the end of the caudal stalk.
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The Esturgeon
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Origine
Sibéria
- The esturgeon of lake has a long body and all in robustness. Its skin hard and is strewn with osseous points. Its back and its sides are generally of color brown olive with gray. Its belly is rather white. Its jaw is under the head. One also finds two there barbillons head on both sides.
Description
The Silure
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Origine
Regarded a long time as indigenous,
it was announced in the basin of the Rhine and exceptional in that of Doubs
(Ogerien, 1863; Moreau, 1881; Roll, 1925 Spillmann, 1961; Allardi, 1984).
Recent research showed that the silure was introduced into the basin of Doubs in 1857 by Benhot,
starting from subjects raised with the pisciculture of Huningue. Since the end of the Sixties it was introduced
into an affluent of the Seine from where it could colonize the network of the Saone and the Rhone.
Voluntary introductions are at the origin of its recent extension.
Description
The body is lengthened, flattened laterally in its posterior part. The head, strong and broad, is flattened dorso-ventralement.
The largely open mouth is provided with 6 barbillons, 2 very developed with the top of the mouth, 4 smaller below.
The eye is very small. There is only one short dorsal fin without spine. The anal fin very long is hardly separated from the caudal one.
The skin is naked, colouring rather variable often brown is marbled on the back and the sides. The belly is often clearer.
Lenght : It can exceed 5 meters (currently 2,20 m in France). Weight : up to 300 kgs
