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Fish roach – schooling freshwater or catadromous fish of the carp family. Common roach throughout the world. Known 17 species of this fish. The most common is the roach of the ordinary. It is divided into three subspecies: roach, roach and Rudd.
Fish roach

Is not considered a particularly valuable fish. For export it is not sales its local. Caught roach throughout the year. In Europe a roach in the food do not drink, it is considered a weed kind of fish. From roaches produce feed for birds, Pets and livestock. Industrial catches include roach and sometimes RAM. Roach feed a predatory fish – perch, pike, catfish. Its use in food and some waterfowl, such as otters.

Roach is quite tasty, especially in dried form.
Habitat

Found on the territory of Europe and to the North of the Alps. A lot of roach in the Caspian sea and the Aral to the rivers of Siberia and Asia, in almost all waters of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Where does the roach

She lives in the waters in flocks. She loves the place protected by snags and overhanging trees water rich in aquatic vegetation ponds. Roach does not like fast current and cold. Before frost, she swims in deep space, where it remains for the winter. In the spring, after opening the water roach rests in shallow water near the shore. After recession of water, the roach is still there. These fish do not stray far from their habitat.
The appearance of roach

Roach were most often small, but can be quite large in size. You’ll be roach nezaboravnim pharyngeal teeth, which are on the throat on both sides for 5 – 6 pieces. The scales of a roach is large. Back fin is growing in the area of the pelvic fins.

Form of roach may be different. It depends on her prey. If the feed lot, the roach is large and with a high back. With a small amount of feed, the growth of roach will be slowed, and the body becomes long and narrow. In some lakes, the roach can be enormous. The average size of an adult roach is 20 cm, Sometimes reaching sizes up to 40 cm mass may be a more pounds.
Color

The back has a black shade. Maybe with a bluish or green tint. The sides and belly are silvery. The fins are yellowish, the posterior and ventral fins are red in color with an orange tint. The eye is yellow with a red spot.
Types of roaches

The common roach is a freshwater and catadromous fish. There are individuals living in salt water. Such fishes as roach and roach live in salt water. All the types differ from each other in color.
Food

Roach feed on both animal and plant food. Seeds of plants, algae and other vegetation. Eat rotifers, crustaceans, molluscs, insects and small bloodworms. Food is different from the habitat of the roaches.

It can feed day and night. She is constantly moving. Most often it’s caught at midnight. In the winter the fish roach eats worse at this time it swims near the muddy bottom and in the algae. Eats mostly bloodworms and vegetation.
Spawning

Puberty roach reaches two years after birth. Spawning starts later spawning of the IDE and pike, early bream, catfish, perch and carp. Roach spawn in the riverbed after water recession. Spawning at oxbow.

The beginning of spawning depends on water temperature. If the water is warm and warmed fast enough, the spawn starts early.

Before the onset of spawning roach is covered with white spots. Later the spots become hard and darken. Scales becomes rough. A week after spawning marks from hard spots will subside.

Of a roach the eggs are transparent and soft with a slight greenish tinge. They stick at the pitfalls and snags. The eggs stick very closely and have the appearance of bunches of grapes. Such clusters can contain up to 84 thousand eggs.

Through the week from eggs the larvae hatch roach. Sometimes this process can take about two weeks. They first feed on their yolk sacs, and then transferred to small zooplankton. They hide in the algae. Then begin to feed on crustaceans and plants.

Fish the roach is most often hidden near the thermal baths and rafts, where they can get protection and find food. Closer to July they will begin to swim in the open water. Finally overgrown it will leave in early August.

Roaches are often used as live bait to catch large predatory fish such as pike and perch. You can fish using roach as bait on a fishing base Zavidovo.