EIFAC OCCASIONAL PAPER No. 8	EIFAC/OP 8/E
EUROPEAN INLAND FISHERIES ADVISORY COMMISSION
COMMISSION EUROPEENNE CONSULTATIVE POUR LES PECHES DANS LES EAUX INTERIEURES

Pond fish culture in Czechoslovakia

Vladimír Krupauer
Director of the Fisheries Research Institute
Vodnany, Czechoslovakia

PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

This document gives general details of fish culture in Czechoslovakia.

Distribution:	Bibliographic entry:
FAO Department of Fisheries FAO Regional Fishery Officers EIFAC mailing list	Krupauer, V. (1973) EIFAC Occas.Pap., (8):33 p.
	H/F, 12. Czechoslovakia - ponds farming. Carp culture - spawning, rearing, wintering. Breeding and selection. Culture of mixed species. Carp-duck system. Economic development, yield, production, statistical data. Management.

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Summary

History of pond fish culture and pond management and its consequent importance in a land-locked country such as Czechoslovakia. Reasons for emphasis put on carp culture and description of methods. Development of culture or rainbow trout and other species. Combination of fish culture with duck and goose breeding. Practice of the carp-duck system.

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Rome, 1973

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2.6 Breeding and Selection

3. CULTIVATION OF MIXED SPECIES

4. EVALUATION OF FISH CULTURE

ILLUSTRATIONS

Fig. 1 -	Hand-painted map of one of the best Czech fish-pond systems near Chlum at Trebon (16th century) built by Nicolas Ruthard after 1520
Fig. 2 -	The greatest Czechoslovak pond Rozmberk; in front the outlet device (711 ha, 6 million m³ of water)
Fig. 3 -	Janus Dubravius, author of the oldest Czech fish culture book (1535–1540)
Fig. 4 -	Title of Dubravius' book (first edition)
Fig. 5 -	Market fish and duck produced by State Fisheries. Enterprise from 1945 to 1971
Fig. 6 -	Fisheries Research Institute at Vodnany
Fig. 7 -	Group of carp spawning ponds with the so-called double inlet
Fig. 8 -	Incubation of eggs after the stripping of the carp
Fig. 9 -	Paulat's aerator (see text)
Fig. 10 -	Electric defroster; in background another type of this device
Fig. 11 -	Maintenance of pools in iced wintering ponds carried out by means of specially adapted motor chain saw
Fig. 12 -	Motor circle saw for cutting ice
Fig. 13 -	Intensive culture of rainbow trout in net cages in the waters of Lipno dam lake
Fig. 14 -	Duck hatchery of State Fisheries Enterprise
Fig. 15 -	Nursery houses for young ducks (State Fisheries at Blatná)
Fig. 16 -	Nursery panel houses for young ducks (State Fisheries at Hluboká)
Fig. 17 -	Automatic feeders and automatic water suppliers in duck nursery house
Fig. 18 -	Young ducks on the pond
Fig. 19 -	State Fisheries Technical School at Vodnany
Fig. 20 -	Fishing of pond - pulling the net
Fig. 21 -	Fishing of pond - turning the net around
Fig. 22 -	Fishing of pond - net with catch is pulled under the pond dam
Fig. 23 -	Loading of fish by means of tractor loader
Fig. 24 -	Loading of fish by means of electric loader
Fig. 25 -	Loading of fish by means of electric loader
Fig. 26 -	Injecting carp stock against the infectious dropsy by means of semi-automatic device
Fig. 27 -	Controlling of aquatic weeds by means of herbicides
Fig. 28 -	Railway truck for transporting live fish

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