As part of the project Biodiversity and Water Protection Lake Palic and Lake Ludas, financed by the German KfW Development Bank, the activities on selective fishing of invasive fish species in Lake Palić continued on Monday, 03.08.2020. Employees of the PE Palić-Ludaš set up special nets – trap nets, which are made especially according to the local requirements, at eight locations of the fourth sector of Lake Palić in cooperation with an engaged fishing company from Serbia. Emptying trap nets is a daily scheduled activity. After the trap nets with caught fish are taken from the lake, the fish get selected and data recorded. The indigenous (so-called “domestic”) species such as pike-perch and carp are returned to the water, while the invasive species such as the Prussian Carp, Sunfish, Chinese Rasbora, and Brown Bullhead Catfish, are taken out and put in the so-called floating fish baskets / net cages, which remain in the water. After emptying all the trap nets, the caught fish is removed. About a ton and a half of fish are taken out this way daily.
The caught fish is currently sent to zoos, where it is used to feed animals. The analyzes of the Veterinary Specialist Institute “Subotica” have shown that they are also suitable for human use.
Selective fishing is realized under the permit of the Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental Protection and the decision on the conditions of nature protection of the Provincial Institute for Nature Conservation and with the inspection supervision. As scheduled, these activities will last until 50 tons of invasive fish species are removed. To achieve the best possible results, it is planned that the catch is carried out a few times every year, but with less scope of work.
