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Human Impacts on Fish Fauna in the Danube River in Serbia: Current Status and Ecological Implications

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Human Impact on Danube Watershed Biodiversity in the XXI Century

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Abstract

The Danube River basin represents a hotspot for the European freshwater diversity. The Danube in Serbia is characterized by a significant level of fish diversity, as well as by economically important fish resources. However, the Danube fish fauna is facing a number of adverse anthropogenic impacts, such as unsustainable fishery, habitat loss and fragmentation, water pollution and non-native species invasions. In this chapter, the major adverse impacts on the Danube fish communities in Serbia are presented, and the critical management measures are discussed, such as those related to supportive stocking and other conservation efforts. In order to ensure adequate protection and sustainable management of fish resources in the Danube in Serbia, it will be critical to introduce effective monitoring system, to establish and enforce adequate management measures, and to intensify research efforts on critical issues related to fish management and conservation.

Mirjana Lenhardt, Marija Smederevac-Lalić, Aleksandar Hegediś, Stefan Skorić, Gorčin Cvijanović, Željka Višnjic-Jeftić, Vesna Djikanović, Katarina Jovičić, Milica Jaćimović and Ivan Jarić from Serbia present the impact of some human activities on fish fauna in the Danube River in Serbia, based on ichthyofaunistic data related with water and sediment pollution, major pollution hotspots, impact of Danube pollution on aquatic biota and the state of scientific research, recent management and policy initiatives and future priorities, impact of the fishery on ichthyofauna.

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This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, Project No. TR 37009 and Project No. OI 173045.

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    Mirjana Lenhardt & Vesna Djikanović

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    Marija Smederevac-Lalić, Aleksandar Hegediš, Stefan Skorić, Gorčin Cvijanović, Željka Višnjić-Jeftić, Katarina Jovičić, Milica Jaćimović & Ivan Jarić

  3. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Aleksandar Hegediš

  4. Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

    Ivan Jarić

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Lenhardt, M. et al. (2020). Human Impacts on Fish Fauna in the Danube River in Serbia: Current Status and Ecological Implications. In: Bănăduc, D., Curtean-Bănăduc, A., Pedrotti, F., Cianfaglione, K., Akeroyd, J. (eds) Human Impact on Danube Watershed Biodiversity in the XXI Century. Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37242-2_13

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