Naturetrail 11

Trout and friends

In addition to trout, many other fish species like to swim in the Longinoja stream.

  • Golly, I’m a gudgeon!
  • Ciao, I’m a chub!
  • Just a lonely stone loach am I!
  • Yikes, I’m a pike!
  • Good day, I’m a grayling!

Alongside the endangered trout, many other fish species live here in the Longinoja stream – the same that you can find in the Vantaanjoki river.

  • The gudgeon (Gobio gobio) is a small fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae) that lives on river beds.
  • The chub (Squalius cephalus) is a stockier member of the carp family that can be identified by its rounded anal fin (behind the belly).
  • The stone loach (Barbatula barbatula) is a small fish with barbels around the bottom jaw that lives among the gravel and stones of fast flowing water.
  • The pike (Esox lucius) is a predator that eats other fish, including members of its own species.
  • The grayling (Thymallus thymallus) is a species of game fish that lives in fast flowing waters. It can be identified by its large dorsal fin that looks like a sail.
  • In addition to trout, many other fish species like to swim in the Longinoja stream.

Perch – Perca fluviatilis

Grayling – Thymallus thymallus

Pike – Exos lucius

Stone loach – Barbatula barbatula

Bullhead – Cottus gobio

Three-spined stickleback – Gasterosteus aculeatus

Nine-spined stickleback – Pungitius pungitius

Burbot – Lota lota

Pikkunahkiainen – Lampetra planeri

Bleak – Alburnus alburnus

Roach – Rutilus rutilus

Trout – Salmo trutta

Chub – Squalius cephalus

Gudgeon – Gobio gobio

Upstream

Downstream

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© Valokuvat: Pekka Tuuri / Vedenalainen Suomi,  Juha Salonen, Toni Randén, Henrik Kettunen Tuomas Heinonen, Mika Järvinen, Maaret Ahlsved, Mikko Joensivu

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