Spatiotemporal Distribution and Assemblages of Fishes below the Lowermost Dam in Protected Reach in the Yangtze River Main Stream: Implications for River Management

Table 2

Catches catalogue downstream Gezhouba Dam, Yangtze River.

Species	Number ()	%	Weight ()	%	Mean TL
Coreius guichenoti (Bleeker)	1665	29.28	363385.10	36.88	275
Siniperca chuatsi (Basilewsky)	1492	26.24	199257.10	20.22	156
Pelteobagrus vachelli (Richardson)	642	11.29	51837.86	5.26	154
Rhinogobio cylindricus Günther	330	5.80	25424.00	2.58	201
Parabramis pekinensis (Basilewsky)	237	4.17	80081.90	8.13	283
Siniperca scherzeri Steindachner	188	3.31	36476.70	3.70	214
Rhinogobio typus Bleeker	145	2.55	20825.20	2.11	244
Xenocypris davidi Bleeker	130	2.29	11253.90	1.14	196
Mystus macropterus (Bleeker)	113	1.99	19892.90	2.02	278
Xenocypris davidi Bleeker	108	1.90	12287.60	1.25	146
Leiocassis crassilabris Günther	95	1.67	6657.00	0.68	138
Carassius auratus (Linnaeus)	77	1.35	21265.30	2.16	167
Leptobotia elongata (Bleeker)	58	1.02	12850.30	1.30	258
Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus	52	0.91	40802.30	4.14	169
Pseudolaubuca sinensis Bleeker	49	0.86	2858.80	0.29	173
Saurogobio dabryi Bleeker	42	0.74	2664.00	0.27	183
Pelteobagrus fulvidraco (Richardson)	35	0.62	2601.00	0.26	162
Silurus asotus Linnaeus	27	0.47	15022.70	1.52	281
Squalidus argentatus (Sauvage et Dabry)	24	0.42	678.60	0.07	122
Hemibarbus maculatus Bleeker	18	0.32	2689.80	0.27	187
Pseudobrama simoni (Bleeker)	16	0.28	658.90	0.07	145
Pelteobagrus nitidus (Sauvage et Dabry)	14	0.25	309.50	0.03	128
Leiocassis longirostris Günther	13	0.23	4842.30	0.49	307
Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Cuvier et Valenciennes)	11	0.19	2320.80	0.24	212
Coreius guichenoti (Sauvage et Dabry)	10	0.18	5494.60	0.56	360
Squaliobarbus curriculus (Richardson)	9	0.16	2442.50	0.25	280
Silurus meridionalis Chen	9	0.16	12231.90	1.24	545
Megalobrama amblycephala Yih	8	0.14	5533.70	0.56	371
Pseudobagrus pratti Günther	7	0.12	327.20	0.03	184
Hemiculter bleekeri Warpachowsky	6	0.11	103.40	0.01	128
Pseudobagrus truncates (Regan)	6	0.11	102.00	0.01	117
Hemiculter leucisclus (Basilewsky)	5	0.09	204.90	0.02	123
Ctenopharyngodon idellus (Cuvier et Valenciennes)	5	0.09	13477.81	1.37	606
Tinca tinca (Linnaeus)	5	0.09	1690.90	0.17	284
Culter alburnus Basilewsky	5	0.09	2185.60	0.22	167
Odontobutis obscura (Temminck & Schlegel)	3	0.05	34.40	<0.01	10
Hyporhamphus intermedius (Cantor)	3	0.05	317.90	0.03	201
Jinshaia sinensis (Sauvage et Dabry)	3	0.05	147.50	0.01	101
Parabotia fasciata Dabry	2	0.04	82.40	0.01	188
Lepturichthys fimbriata (Günther)	2	0.04	11.80	<0.01	116
Culter molitorella (Cuvier et Valenciennes)	2	0.04	170.70	0.02	219
Culter mongolicus mongolicus (Basilewsky)	2	0.04	1090.50	0.11	375
Culter oxycephaloides Kreyenberg et Pappenheim	2	0.04	1016.10	0.10	431
Myxocy prinus asiaticus (Bleeker)	2	0.04	235.40	0.02	183
Pelteobagrus eupogon (Boulenger)	2	0.04	110.00	0.01	19
Saurogobio gymnocheilus Lo Yao & Chen	1	0.02	67.60	0.01	224
Opsariichthys bidens Günther	1	0.02	32.00	<0.01	15
Misgurnus anguillicaudatus (Cantor)	1	0.02	37.00	<0.01	162
Channa argus (Cantor)	1	0.02	781.50	0.08	432
Gobiobotia filifer (Garman)	1	0.02	7.50	<0.01	107
Aristichthys nobilis (Richardson)	1	0.02	59.40	0.01	180
Rhinogobio ventralis Sauvage et Dabry	1	0.02	179.60	0.02	251
Spinibarbus sinensis (Bleeker)	1	0.02	224.10	0.02	267
Total	5687	100	985343.47	100

Number (), percentage number (%  ), weight (in grams, ), percent weight (%  ), and mean total length (mm, mean TL). means that this species is peculiar to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.