!!!Fische

Fishes: Austria's lakes (approx. 32,000 hectares), ponds (approx. 
3,000 hectares) and flowing bodies of water (approx. 18,500 km) once 
held circa 60 species of fishes and two species of cyclostomes. Five 
fish species have become extinct. The Kessler groundling was found in 
Austria in 1988 for the first time, the golden loach in 1989. Several 
fish species have been brought to Austria for fishing purposes. The 
introduction of fish species foreign to Austria and the excessive 
cultivation of any one indigenous species have presented a serious 
threat to indigenous fish populations.

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Examples: salmon-like fish (trout, lake trout, brook trout, Danube 
salmon (huchen)); carp fish (scaly carp, mirrored (shining) carp, and 
leather carp, including the barbels, tench and 29 other species); 
perch (zander, barbel, Danube ruffe, streber, zingel); sheath-fish 
(catfish) (wels and brown bullfish (catfish); common eel, pike, 
grayling, loaches (pond loach (thunderfish), or European weatherfish, 
loach, spined loach, or groundling).


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