| Abstract: | In the Galenbeck lake, a shallow lake covering 700 ha and having a nutrient load of 0.23 g/m2a P as well as 4.3 g/m2a N, in 1965 a stock of carp of 500 animals/ha was established and additionally fed with grain. This stock of carp resulted in a considerable whirling-up and redeposition of the soft lime sediments, the rich submersed vegetation disappeared and the phytoplankton reached maxima of 885,420 cells/ml, whereas the zooplanktion reached only 4530 ind./l. The chlorophyll contents increased to 464 mg/m3, the depth of visibility decreased to 10 cm. The total planktonic primary production is estimated at 500 g/m2a C at least. These changes are regarded as eutrophication, its cause being attributed mainly to the internal fertilization by an intensified recirculation of nutrients from the sediment, but also by the fertilization which is connected with feeding. When the fish rearing had ceased and the stock of carp had been fished off, in 1970 a reacreation of the lake began, and in 1974 the lake reached again its original state as a clear-water lake with an abundant contents of macrophytes, supported also by the P-retention in an upstream storage reservoir for spray-irrigation water. |
