Fisheries of Golden Horn following the Improvements in Water Quality
The aim of the study was to determine the returning of current and former species in their native lands, the Galata Bridge and the Ataturk (Unkapani) Bridge, at Golden Horn during the periods from October 2005 to May 2006—stations on which established fisheries were determined and inland distances where these fisheries were viewed and observed. At the end of the observations, thirty-four species were determined at Golden Horn. Fifteen species, Hippocampus hippocampus, Solea vulgaris, Atherina boyeri, Thrachurus trachurus, Maena smaris, Psetta maxima, Diplodus vulgaris, Gobius batrachocephalus, Boops boops, Boops salpa, Merlangius euxinus, Lithognathus mormyrus, Alosa fallax nilotica, Trachinus draco, and Belone belone gracilis were observed for the first time differently from the previous studies (Yuksek et al., 2006). Economically important species like Mullus surmuletus, Mugil cephalus, Sarda sarda, Pomatomus saltator, Psetta maxima, Engraulis encrasicolus, Trigla lucerna, Belone belone, Trachurus trachurus, Solea vulgaris, Diplodus vulgaris, Lithognathus mormyrus, and Merlangius euxinus were frequently determined. Furthermore the length sizes of the same species that were observed at the selected stations were compared statistically (P>0.05). Consequently, positive influence of rehabilitation studies started in 1995 on the increasing of the species and the amounts was researched.
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