Taimen

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Taimen
Hucho taimen June 2007 Uur River.jpg

Taimen ( Hucho taimen )

Systematics
Cohort : Euteleosteomorpha
Order : Salmonid fish (Salmoniformes)
Family : Salmon fish (Salmonidae)
Subfamily : Salmoninae
Genre : Hucho
Type : Taimen
Scientific name
Hucho taimen
( Pallas , 1773)

The Taimen ( Hucho taimen ) is a bony fish from the salmon fish family . Its name comes from the Finnish taimen , which means trout .

description

The body of the elongated fish reaches a length of one meter and more and has a weight of 30 to 60, in the Siberian rivers up to over 80 kilograms. A specimen caught in the Kotui in 1988 had a record length of 2.10 meters and weighed 105 kilograms.

The Taimen is similar to the Huchen , but the head is flattened more like a pike and, unlike the Huchen, has small black spots. It has 26 to 30 rows of scales above the sidelines, the Huchen only 22 to 26. Young animals have dark transverse bars. During the spawning season, old animals turn a bright copper-red color.

Occurrence and way of life

It is a fish of the Siberian river systems from the Volga over the Urals , Ob , Yenisei , Selenga , Lena to the Amur . It lives stationary in fresh water (no anadromous migratory fish ) and prefers strong and strong currents. It is only found sporadically in lakes. During the spawning season in May it migrates to the upper reaches and even into shallow streams. The spawning grounds are on scree and coarse gravel.

Its diet consists mainly of carp fish and coregons . Large specimens can also prey on small mammals and birds. An intensive food intake in spring and autumn is followed by periods of hunger in summer and winter. The Taimen is caught with cast nets and various fishing methods, fly fishing is particularly popular .

literature

  • Werner Ladiges , Dieter Vogt: The freshwater fish of Europe to the Urals and Caspian Sea. A paperback for sport and professional fishermen, biologists and nature lovers. Parey, Hamburg et al. 1965.
  • Wolfgang Hauer: Fascination Huchen. Occurrence, catch, anecdotes. Stocker, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-7020-1038-6 .
  • Günter Leibig: The Huchen. Fish woad for the king of the salmonids. Leibig, Königsbrunn 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-029950-6 .

proof

  1. ↑ Juraj Holčik, Karol Hensel, Josef Nieslanik, Ladislav Skácel: The Eurasian Huchen, Hucho hucho. Largest Salmon of The World (= Perspectives in Vertebrate Science. Vol. 5). Junk, Dordrecht et al. 1988, ISBN 90-6193-643-8 .

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