Amur river is located on the original climatic border, where the inhabitants of the northern and tropical waters are living together. For example for salmons, the water temperature is a top limit of their existence. But the same temperature serves the bottom limit for the normal living of tropical fish.
Amur is the richest river in Russia with its variety of fish kinds. There are 108 kinds of different fish. There are perfect conditions for the northern kinds such as - thumallus and lenok, not bad for such southern kinds as for example, channipae argus.
The special place is occupied by the sturgeon family: sturgeon and kaluga. The sturgeon reaches three meters length and 160 kg weight. Kaluga - four meters length and weighs about one ton.
From the endemic kinds of the Amur basin fishes, it is right to mention such rear kind of fish as siniperca chua-tsi (Chinese perch) - living product of the nature-creator.
Here, spawns such passage fish of the salmon kind as: keta, hunchaback, sima, kisutsch and oncorhynchus tshawytscha.
The most trade meaning belong to such fish as: crucian, bream, sazan and such large fishes, as a skygazer which is 2,5 meter lengths and up to 10 kg weight, white amur weighing up to 25 kg, elopichthys bambusa, which weight reaches 40 kg. There are also: hypophthal michthys molitriz, byrbot catfish, sig, hucho, pike. But an Amur pike (differs from the ordinary pike), Amur breams (black and white), catfishes - Amur and Soldatov’s. Rotan fish is capable to relive after being frozen in the ice.
Sport and recreational fishing of salmon, hucho, sima and other species of fish is available in marvelous places along the mountain taiga rivers.
Numbers in the list correspond to the figures on the map
From the endemic kinds of the Amur basin fishes, it is right to mention such rear kind of fish as siniperca chua-tsi (Chinese perch) - living product of the nature-creator.
