The emergence of lake-migratory brown trout Salmo trutta m. lacustris L. fry from natural redds was observed in a small lake outlet stream. A total of 1104 emerging fry were captured in traps in nine of the 12 investigated redds during three seasons. In 2005, all the fry emerged during the daytime, but in 2007 and 2009 they emerged mostly at night. Furthermore, the
timing of emergence was earlier than expected from temperature models.
The fry left the redds at a water temperature range of 6.2-15.0 °C, and the emergence pattern was correlated with the moon phase. The number of fry captured was strongly affected by the percentage of fine particles < 1 mm
and the 8-16 mm particle content, and was positively correlated with the geometric mean of substrate particle size (Dg) and the index of permeability: the fredle index (fi). The estimated survival rate between egg deposition and fry emergence ranged from 0.0 to 59.8 % in individual redds. Additionally, the greatest number of fry and the highest survival rate were observed in redds that had the high water velocity and shortest duration of intragravel period.
Scanning electron microscopy examinations of trematode specimens belonging to Crepidostomum farionis (O.F. Müller, 1784) and C. metoecus Braun, 1900, collected from brown trout, Salmo trutta fario L., in the Czech Republic, made it possible to study their surface morphology including details not described previously. The tegument of both species bears numerous characteristic papillae around the oral sucker (in C. metoecus also around the ventral sucker) and the ventral and dorsal surfaces of the forebody, exhibiting a high degree of variability in numbers and arrangement, with tegumental bosses forming lateral fields on the forebody and minute sensory receptors with submerged cilia scattered on the surface of the dorsal part of the oral sucker. In addition to marked differences in the size, shape and position of the oral muscular lobes, both species distinctly differ in the number of genital pores: two separate pores in C. farionis and a single pore in C. metoecus.
We examined condition factor, hepatosomatic index and stomach fullness in brown trout to study if feeding intensity can be related to fish condition. Trout were collected at three locations during the summer in temperate rivers (Galicia, NW Spain). Our findings suggest that the feeding intensity is inversely related with the fish condition because the stomach fullness decreases with fish age and size and the condition factor is the lowest in young-of-the-year (YOY). In general, no significant differences among age classes were found in the hepatosomatic index, except in one river (the River Lengüelle) in which YOY shows the highest value. The high
feeding intensity of YOY during summer could be related with the increases in fish condition and survival in the later autumn and winter.