FI:DP/CPR/88/077 Field Document 12 September 1991 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA A FISHERIES MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR QINGHAI LAKE A report prepared for the project Fisheries Development in Qinghai Province by I.G. Dunn Fisheries Development Consultant

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

1   INTRODUCTION AND TERMS OF REFERENCE

2   CONSULTANT'S ITINERARY AND WORK PROGRAMME

2.1   Itinerary

2.2   Work programme

3   PRESENT STATUS OF THE LAKE INVESTIGATION TEAM

3.1   General comments

3.2   Personnel

3.3   Accommodation

3.4   Road Transport and Survey Vessel

3.4.1   Road transport

3.4.2   Survey vessel

3.5   Equipment

3.6   Administrative issues

3.6.1   Personnel

3.6.2   Equipment

3.7   Training and Study Tour

4   PROJECT WORK PROGRAMME

4.1   Data handling

4.1.1   General comments

4.1.4   Commercial catch sampling

4.1.5   Experimental fishing

4.1.6   Environmental data

4.1.7   Bibliography

4.2   Equipment

4.2.1   General comments

4.3   Survey vessel

4.3.1   General comments

4.4   Breeding site investigations

4.4.1   General comments

4.4.2   Identification and assessment of spawning areas

4.4.3   Seasonal changes and the history of watershed use

4.4.4   Lake fish returns

4.5   Limnological investigations

4.5.1   General comments

4.5.2   Surveys of the Inflow streams

4.5.3   Shallow water surveys

4.6   Bottom fauna and flora

4.7   Experimental fishing

4.7.1   Migrating fish populations

4.7.2   Lake fish populations

4.8   Commercial catch data

4.8.1   Log-book data

4.8.2   Catch statistics

Appendix 1

CURRENT STATUS OF THE GYMNOCYPRIS FISHERY ON QINGHAI HU

1   INTRODUCTION

2   TOTAL YIELD FROM THE FISHERY

3   CHANGES IN CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT

4   CHANGES IN SIZE OF FISH CAUGHT

5   CONCLUSIONS

6   REFERENCE

Appendix 2

GROWTH OF NAKED CARP (Gymnocypris przewalskii przewalskii (Kessler)) IN QINGHAI HU

1   INTRODUCTION

2   ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

3   OBSERVATIONS

4   CONCLUSIONS