Business trip report, Lindbergmühle, Flajšhans

On 31^st May 2024, we travelled with our colleagues Dr. Vojtěch Kašpar and Dr. Martin Hubálek to Bezirk Niederbayern, Fischereilicher Lehr- und Beispielsbetrieb Lindbergmühle in the frame of our joint project Šumava Fish Jewels, BYCZ01-020. The purpose of the trip was to have a working meeting with the owners and managers of the waters where the sampling of brown trout is to take place this year on the Bavarian side of Šumava, including waters managed by the Bayerischer Wald National Park and the Bezirk Niederbayern Fisheries Administration. The introduction by Dr. Stephan Paintner from the Bezirk Niederbayern fisheries management  was followed by a presentation by Dr. Blabolil and his team from the Institute of Hydrobiology, Czech Acad. Sci. explaining the reasons for the project, the status of the brown trout populations in Šumava, the first results of the monitoring of the populations on the Czech side of Šumava and the sampling plans on the Bavarian side. The lecture by Prof. Flajshans, Dr. Kašpar and Dr. Hubálek presented the main mission of the Laboratory of Molecular, Cellular and Quantitative Genetics of the FROV JU, aspects of the living gene bank of Czech brown trout populations within the National Programme for the Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources, the progress of analyses of tissue samples of trout populations on the Czech side of Šumava, including the expected further development of sample processing and data analysis. Lectures were followed by a fairly extensive discussion. Finally, Dr. Paintner again summarized the main points for Bavarian fisheries managers and owners, including the necessary aspects imposed by Bavarian legislation.

Written by: Martin Flajšhans