Short communication: Identification, distribution, abundance and species composition of fish in the Chitgar Lake (Tehran Province of Iran)

This study was conducted in the Chitgar Lake in 2014. Chitgar Lake, 130 hectares in area is an artificial lake located in the north-west of Tehran City, Iran. For the first time the seasonal sampling of fish was done by three fishing methods gill net, cast net and beach seine, and a random sample of 3160 fish was collected. Some morphometric and meristic factors of samples were studied in the laboratory, and the distribution, abundance and species composition were determined. According to the results obtained, 95% of fish population was comprised of aggressive species such as; Hemiculter leucisculus, Pseudoras boraparva and Alburnus hohenackeri. There are 14 fish species in the lake, 9 species of which belong to the Cyprinidae family, 2 species including Capoeta buhsei and Capoeta capoeta are the only native species.