The establishment of Scotland’s rarest freshwater fish, the vendace (Coregonus albula), in conservation refuge sites.
2019
In recent decades conservation measures for the rarest
freshwater fish in the U.K., the vendace (Coregonus
albula), have included attempts to form conservation
refuge populations in Scotland. Here we report that at
two of these refuge sites where the status of the
introduced vendace was previously unknown (Loch
Earn and Daer Reservoir) surveys have established that
vendace are reproducing successfully in situ, albeit that
these populations appear to be relatively numerically
small. At a third site, Loch Valley, there was no
evidence of vendace in the survey, but it is possible that
a small, but as yet undetectable population is in the
process of establishing.
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