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FISHING

The Danube Delta now provides over 50 % of Romania’s fish population. Among the most common species in the Danube Delta are:

 

• the carp (Cyprinus carpio)
• the wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
• the pike (Esox ludus)
• the zander (Stizostedion ludoperca)
• the goldfish (Carassius auratus gibelio)
• the tench (Tinca tinca)
• the carp bream (Abramis brama)
• the European perch (Perca fluviatilis)
• the bleak (Albumus alburnus)

 

Among the fish species in the Danube Delta the sea sturgeons are of great economic and biological importance: the starry sturgeon (Accipenser stellatus), the Russian sturgeon (Accipenser guldenstaedti) - that produces the famous caviar -, as well as the fresh-water sturgeons like the starlet and the Accipenseridae Sturio.

 

Let’s not forget about the migratory fish like the herring that in spring ascends along the Danube hundreds of kilometres to spawn!

 

Name of the species	The best period for fishing	Recommended baits
The pike	February – March and October - November	Lingurita oscilanta (in line speener), wobblers, lingurita rotativa spoon lure, live fish
The wels catfish	In the summer, especially in July, September, October, November	Mole cricket, buchet de rame negre (black lobworms bouquets), frogs, scallops, eels
The carp	September - November	Corn mush, corn grains, lobworms, small worms. Pre-baiting the ground is highly recommended.
The pikeperch	The entire fishing season, especially in autumn	Live fish (eels), pieces of fish, twister, lingurita rotativa spoon lure
Polyploid gibel carp	June - October	Red lobworms, scallops, corn-mush, bread, small worms
The crucian carp	June - October	Lobworms, corn-mush, pellets of bread, small worms
The asp	The entire fishing season, especially in autumn	small in-line spinner spoons, small fish, twister
The European perch	The whole year, excepting the prohibition period ant the best times are the autumn months. It’s very active in winter, too.	Lobworms, lingurite rotative spinning spoons, twister, pieces of leach, pieces of fish, live small fish, small frogs
The rudd	June - October	Lobworms, small worms, corn mush, pellets of bread
The carp bream	June - October	Lobworms, small worms, corn mush, pellets of bread
The tench	June - October	Lobworms, small worms, pellets of bread, scallops

 

The minimum dimensions (in centimetres) for the fish that can be captured in the Romanian surface waters, Black Sea included :

 

Name of the species	Dimension (cm)	Name of the species	Dimension (cm)
The asp	30	The aterita	7
The Roach	15	The White bream	15
The European perch	12	The Carp	35
The SilverCrucian carp	15	The Crucian carp	17
The Blue bream	25	The European chub	25
The Sterlet	45	The rund sik	22
The turbot	40	The flatfish	20
The Flathead mullet	25	The Aspro Streber vonsh	12
The Tyulka sprat	7	Anchovies	7
The tench	25	The grayling	25
The huchen	65	The vimba	25
The barbel	27	The Beluga sturgeon	170
The sturgeon	140	The Danube bleak	12
The carp bream	25	The brown trout	20
The starry sturgeon	100	The rudd	15
The Astrabad shad	15	The ziege	20
The shark	100	The sneep	20
The wels catfish	50	Pontic shad stock	23
Mediterranean Horse mackrel	12	The zander	40
The pike	40	The common sturgeon	110
The European sprat	7	The orfe	30
Acipenser sturio	100	The crawfish	9
The oyster	8	The frog	30 g/individual

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