A reciprocal transplant of marked roach between two spatially separated (3.3 km) spawning grounds is described. The recapture rates on the‘home grounds‘were higher than those obtained elsewhere in the lake, which suggests that the roach exhibit a degree of fidelity to specific spawning grounds.
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C. R. Goldspink (1977) studied this question.
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