The Accomplition of limnologic Study of Shiroud River (West of Mazandaran)

Abstract

The shiroud river is one of the important riveres in point of view of fisheries matter which located in western part of Mazndran provience. The project of Limnological study have done in this river during June/ 2002 - Jun / 2003 for more and better underestanding situations, of biological and nonbiological parameters like as phytoplankton, zooplonkton, benthoses, Ichthyology, physico - chemical and pesticides of water. - Physico- chemical paramaters by ASTM methods and spectrophotometer and pestisides by US-EPA- method and GC- ECD determined. The procedures of detemination of zooplanklon and phytoplankton by manuals of Newell, 1970 and Sorina, 1974 idantify and determined respectinely. In Ichthyology, by manual procedure Berg, 1949 identifind. The sampeling have been in four stations during four seasons and result as follow: - The maximum and minimum amount of pH were in station 5 (spring) and Station no. 4 (summer) 8.19 and 7.75 respectively. - The maximum and minimum temperature of water were in station no. 8 (summer) and stations no. 2 (winter) 27.7 c and 7.7c respectively. The fluctuatcions of nutroients datas of this study and other studies done during last 5 years showed, there were not big diffrence between them but also these datas were very close to each other. - The maximum residues of pesticides for heptachlor Epoxide (Winter ) and Lindane (spring) betweenresidues of sixteen pesticdes were 79.4 and 3.7 ppb respectively. - The maximum and minimum amount of phytoplankton biomass belong to chrysophyta during four seasons were 2572 through 1081 mg/m3. - The percentage of zooplankton belong to Rotatoria , Protozoa , Copepoda , Cladocera and Zoobenthos were in 41 , 31 , 12 , 4 and 12 percent recpectively. - The maximum aboundant percentage of bentheic animals belong to Diptera with 42 percent and were dominate whole sampeling stations . - The abundence of fishes in this river belong to two species of C. capoeta gracilis and Al. bipunctatus were catched in four seasons at eight stations . The percentages of C. capoeta gracilis species were catched in four seasons at eight stations during winter, summer , spring and fall with 96 ,81 , 73 and 67 percent respectively. The percentages of Al. bipunctatus species were catched in four seasons at eight stations during winter, summer , spring and fall with 47 , 44 , 43 and 40 percent respectively.