Bosten Lake
The lake's Mongol, Uyghur and Chinese names are sometimes rendered as Bosten Hu, Bagrax-hu, Bagrasch-köl, Baghrasch köl, Bagratsch-kul, Bositeng Lake or Bositeng Hu.
The Kaidu River is the most important tributary to Lake Bosten, accounting for about 83% of its water inflow, other significant tributaries are the Huangshui Ditch (Chinese: 黃水溝), the Qingshui River (清水河), and Wulasite River (烏拉司特河).
An active fishery exists on the lake. Until the early 1970s, two cyprinid species, Schizothorax biddulphi and Aspiorhynchus laticeps, the latter of which is endemic to Bosten Lake and the Yarkand River, were responsible for 80 percent of the annual catch. During the years 1962 to 1965, various carp species (bighead, black, silver, grass, common, and crucian carp) were introduced into the lake. In the 1970s, these species become major targets of the fishing activities. Since 1978, the introduced European perch has been the dominating species in the catches from Bosten Lake.
References
- ^ Seespiegelschwankungen des Bosten-Sees (in German)
- ^ Mischke, S. (6–11 April 2003). "Holocene environmental fluctuations of Lake Bosten (Xinjiang, China) inferred from ostracods and stable isotopes". EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the Meeting Held in Nice, France, Abstract #6609. European Geosciences Union: 6609. Bibcode:2003EAEJA.....6609M.
- ^ Wei, K.Y.; Lee, M.Y.; Wang, C.H.; Wang, Y.; Lee, T.Q.; Yao, P. (February 2002). "Stable isotopic variations in oxygen and hydrogen of waters in Lake Bosten region, southern Xinjiang, western China". Western Pacific Earth Sciences. 2 (1): 67–82.
- ^ K. F. Walker and H.Z. Yang, Fish and Fisheries in Western China, in Fish and Fisheries at Higher Altitudes: Asia (FAO Fisheries Technical Paper), December 1999
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