Description of Brown Trout Redds in a Mountain Stream
作者:
RichardT. Grost,
WayneA. Hubert,
ThomasA. Wesche,
期刊:
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 120,
issue 5
页码: 582-588
ISSN:0002-8487
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1991)120<0582:DOBTRI>2.3.CO;2
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
We sampled redds of brown troutSalmo truttain a mountain stream to describe egg location and substrate composition after spawning and during egg incubation. A single-probe freeze-coring device was used to sample egg depth and substrate composition. We found eggs throughout redds but most often in the front half of the tailspill (the substrate mound that accumulates as the redd is excavated progressively upstream). Eggs were buried between 2 and 23 cm below the substrate surface but were most frequently 9–12 cm deep. Spawning fish cleaned substrate particles less than 6.3 mm in diameter from egg pockets, yet the percentage of particles smaller than 1.7 mm in egg pockets was correlated with that outside redds. Egg pockets contained particles larger than 50 mm more often than did any other location, indicating that particles of this size were used as egg pocket centrums. The percentage of 1.7-mm and smaller particles in egg pockets was higher in winter than in fall. We conclude that (1) spawning brown trout 20–40 cm in total length substantially alter the substrate in egg pockets; (2) the amount of fine sediment in egg pockets is positively correlated with that in the adjacent streambed; and (3) fines accumulate in egg pockets during the incubation period.
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