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Family sport and recreational fish farms within the natural landscape

Springs and rivers flowing through flooded wetlands create a unique living space that is clearly differentiated from other parts of the landscape. The mosaic of different biotopes depends on location and includes rivers with rapid or slow flows, ponds, pits and areas with high and low vegetation. These ecological differences enable colonisation by a variety of plant and animal species. Species adapted to particular types of aquatic habitat can survive only if the ecology remains intact. Human influences cause the formation of stagnant waters, such as reservoirs and small ponds. These secondary biotopes have lower biodiversity and are not as physically attractive as the original rivers. However, they also should be protected and properly managed. Family fish farms resemble small lakes provided their position and associated vegetation are chosen carefully. Though one cannot expect intact natural systems where semi-natural elements interface with more or less cultivated landscapes, aesthetic value must be ensured by methods that are acceptable to natural processes. The protection of nature is rarely compatible with recreational fishing but pressures on small natural water bodies that do not lie within protected areas (natural parks, reserves etc.) are in fact relieved by sport and recreational family fish-farms. For these reasons cultural landscapes should be evaluated before the plans for family fish farm are made. Such analyses are crucial for fitting a farm into the landscape and ensuring that the rules and regulations governing the creation of the reservoirs, slopes and water banks are respected. In this investigation such a procedure was followed in two family fresh-water fish farms (one cyprinid, one salmonid). !n doing so, we present a model of a family sport and recreational fish farm that is adapted to the landscape and offers multiple choices for recreational activities.

Recreational fisheries; Put and take fishery; Family fish farms; Aquaculture

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