Mr. Wu was arraigned on Thursday night, charged on felony commercialization of wildlife and importing fish dangerous to indigenous fish populations.
The basin was stocked last week, he said, with 75,000 fathead minnows, indigenous fish that eat mosquito larvae.
The number of indigenous fish was falling, since the floods that induce them to spawn were becoming rarer.
They present a barrier to the spawning grounds of certain indigenous fish — alewife, for instance, which swim upstream to lay their eggs.
From the wheelhouse, he pointed out a spot on Breezy Point, at the west end of the Rockaways, where the city was attempting to restore local eelgrass (it would, he said, attract menhaden and other indigenous fish).
The Regional Council Tübingen demanded investigations on the fish health of protected indigenous fish species like bullhead.
For the investigation of fish health, we caught stationary indigenous fish species such as the European bullhead (Cottus gobio) or loach (Barbatula barbatula).
The survival of deep-water rice, an indigenous rice variety, and Oujiang red carp, an indigenous fish variety, are cases in point.
Hsp70 levels are determined in liver, kidney, gills, and gonads of two indigenous fish species, chub and spirlin, as well as in trout exposed in the bypass systems.
In addition, sediment samples from the Argen River and tissues of indigenous fish were used for chemical analyses of 33 frequently occurring pollutants by means of gas chromatography.
