Lake Sapanca
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Lake Sapanca is a fresh water lake
Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

 in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, between the Gulf of İzmit and the Adapazarı Meadow. The lake has a catchment area
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

 of 251 km², surface area
Surface area
Surface area is the measure of how much exposed area a solid object has, expressed in square units. Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of a curve. For polyhedra the surface area is the sum of the areas of its faces...

 is 45 km², a length 16 km east-west / 5 km north-south, and a maximum depth of 52 m.
Lake Sapanca, Turkey

Sapanca Lake is located on a tectonic hole, which is situated between Izmit Bay and Adapazari Meadow and runs parallel to Iznik Lake.

The catchment area of Lake Sapanca - about 251 sq. km [km²] - is surrounded by mountains in the south and small hills in the north. Water is taken from the Lake for domestic and industrial needs.
The region around Sapanca has become very important for day trips and weekend vacations with its charming natural beauty.

List of fish in the Lake Sapanca

Anguillidae
Anguillidae
Anguillidae is a family of fishes that contains the freshwater eels. There are 19 species/subspecies in this family, all in genus Anguilla. They are catadromous, meaning they spend their lives in freshwater rivers, lakes, or estuaries and return to the ocean to spawn...


  • European eel
    European eel
    The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. They can reach in exceptional cases a length of 1½ m, but are normally much smaller, about 60–80 cm, and rarely more than 1 m....

    , Anguilla anguilla (Liiaeus, 1758)


Atherinidae
  • Big-scale sand smelt, Atherina boyeri (Risso, 1810)


Clupeidae
Clupeidae
Clupeidae is the family of the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa and menhadens. It includes many of the most important food fishes in the world.-Description and biology:...


  • Black Sea Shad, Alosa maeotica (Grimm, 1901)
  • Clupeonella abrau muhlisi (Neu, 1934)


Cobitidae
  • Cobitis vardarensis
    Cobitis vardarensis
    Cobitis vardarensis is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cobitidae family. It is found only in Greece.Its status is insufficiently known....

    (Karaman, 1928)
  • Angora loach
    Angora loach
    Angora loach is a species of ray-finned fish in the Balitoridae family.It is found in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....

    , Nemacheilus angorae (Steindachner, 1897)


Cyprinidae
  • Common bream
    Common bream
    The common bream, freshwater bream, bream, bronze bream or carp bream, Abramis brama, is a European species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae....

    , Abramis brama (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Italian bleak
    Italian Bleak
    The Italian Bleak or White Bleak is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found only in Italy.Its natural habitat is rivers.-Source:* Crivelli, A.J. 2005. . Downloaded on 19 July 2007....

    , Alburnus albidus (Costa, 1938)
  • Common bleak, Alburnus alburnus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Spirlin
    Spirlin
    The Spirlin is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania,...

    , Alburnoides bipunctatus (Bloch, 1782)
  • Asp
    Asp
    Asp may refer to:Snakes:* Asp , an archaic term for a venomous snake.* Vipera aspis, a venomous viper found in Europe.* Cerastes cerastes, a venomous viper found in the Sahara desert....

    , Aspius aspius (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Silver bream
    Silver Bream
    The Silver Bream is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.-Locations:It is found in Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Iceland, Iran,...

    , Blicca bjoerkna (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Crucıan carp
    Crucian carp
    The crucian carp is a member of the family Cyprinidae, which includes many other fish, such as the common carp, or the smaller minnows. They inhabit lakes, ponds, and slow-moving rivers throughout Europe and Asia. The crucian is a medium-sized cyprinid, which rarely exceeds a weight of over 3.3...

    , Carassius carassius ((Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Prussian carp
    Prussian carp
    The Prussian carp, silver Prussian carp or Gibel carp , is a member of the family Cyprinidae, which includes many other fish, such as the common carp, and the smaller minnows...

    , Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782)
  • Danube bleak
    Danube Bleak
    The Danube Bleak is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found in Iran, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. . Downloaded...

    , Chalcalburnus chalcoides (Guldenstad, 1772)
  • Chondrostoma angorense
    Chondrostoma angorense
    Chondrostoma angorense is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Chondrostoma....

    (Elvira, 1987)
  • Common carp
    Common carp
    The Common carp is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia. The wild populations are considered vulnerable to extinction, but the species has also been domesticated and introduced into environments worldwide, and is often considered an invasive...

    , Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Black Sea chub
    Black Sea Chub
    The Black Sea Chub is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found in Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Lives up to eight years.-Source:...

    , Petroleuciscus borysthenicus (Kessler, 1859)
  • European bitterling, Rhodeus amarus (Bloch, 1782)
  • Common roach, Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Common rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • European chub
    European chub
    The European chub , sometimes called the round chub, fat chub, chevin, pollard or simply "the" chub, is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae...

    , Squalius cephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Tench
    Tench
    The tench or doctor fish is a freshwater and brackish water fish of the cyprinid family found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including the British Isles east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is also found in Lake Baikal...

    , Tinca tinca (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Vimba bream, Vimba vimba (Linnaeus, 1758)


Esocidae
  • Northern pike
    Northern Pike
    The northern pike , is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox...

    , Esox lucius (Linnaeus, 1758)


Gobiidae
  • Caucasian dwarf goby, Knipowitschia caucasica (Berg, 1916)
  • Racer goby, Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857)
  • Round goby
    Round goby
    The round goby, Neogobius melanostomus, is an euryhaline bottom-dwelling goby of the family Gobiidae, native to central Eurasia including the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.-Characteristics:...

    , Neogobius melanostomus (Pallas, 1814)
  • Monkey goby, Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814)
  • Syrman goby, Ponticola syrman (Nordmann, 1840)
  • Marine tubenose goby
    Marine tubenose goby
    The marine tubenose goby is a brackish-water species of fish in the Gobiidae family. It is widely distributed in desalinated parts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, near the coasts of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine....

    , Proterorhinus marmoratus (Pallas, 1814)


Centrarchidae
Centrarchidae
The sunfishes are a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes. The type genus is Centrarchus . The family's 27 species includes many fishes familiar to North Americans, including the rock bass, largemouth bass, bluegill, pumpkinseed, and crappies...


  • Pumpkinseed
    Pumpkinseed
    The pumpkinseed sunfish is a freshwater fish of the sunfish family of order Perciformes. It is also referred to as "pond perch", "common sunfish", "punkys", and "sunny".-Range and distribution:...

    , Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)


Percidae
Percidae
The Percidae are a family of perciform fish found in fresh and brackish waters of the Northern Hemisphere. The family contains about 200 species in ten genera...


  • European perch
    European perch
    The European perch, Perca fluviatilis, is a predatory species of perch found in Europe and Asia. In some areas it is known as the redfin perch or English perch, and it is often known simply as perch. The species is a popular quarry for anglers and has been widely introduced beyond its native area,...

    , Perca fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)


Petromyzontidae
  • European river lamprey
    European river lamprey
    River Lamprey redirects here. See Lamprey River for the river in New HampshireThe European river lamprey, also known as the river lamprey or lampern, is a jawless lamprey, scientific name Lampetra fluviatilis...

    , Lampetra fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)


Salmonidae
Salmonidae
Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish, the only living family currently placed in the order Salmoniformes. It includes salmon, trout, chars, freshwater whitefishes and graylings...


  • Rainbow trout
    Rainbow trout
    The rainbow trout is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead is a sea run rainbow trout usually returning to freshwater to spawn after 2 to 3 years at sea. In other words, rainbow trout and steelhead trout are the same species....

    , Onchorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum, 1792)
  • Black Sea salmon, Salmo trutta labrax (Pallas, 1811)
  • Salmo cettii
    Salmo cettii
    Salmo cettii, or the Mediterranean trout, is a species of trout, a freshwater fish in the Salmonidae family. It lives in the Mediterranean region, in Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and on the Italian mainland in the Magra drainage and further south. It is a non-migratory fish which lives in streams and...

    , Salmo trutta macrostigma (Dumeril, 1858)


Siluridae
  • Welsh catfish, Silurus glanis (Linnaeus, 1758)


Syngnathidae
Syngnathidae
Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes the seahorses, the pipefishes, and the weedy and leafy sea dragons. The name is derived from Greek, meaning "fused jaw" - syn meaning fused or together, and gnathus meaning jaws. This fused jaw trait is something the entire family has in common...


  • Black-striped pipefish, Syngnathus abaster (Risso, 1827)
  • Narrow-snouted pipefish
    Narrow-snouted pipefish
    Narrow-snouted pipefish is a pipefish species, inhabits the Mediterranean basin: Adriatic Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, and Black Sea. Marine demersal, ovoviviparous fish.- Links :*...

    , Syngnathus tenuirostris (Rathke, 1837)


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