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The bream spawns in the spring, like most fish species. Before spawning, adults gather in flocks to travel to permanent spawning grounds. The bream starts spawning at 3-4 years of its life, depending on the nature of the reservoir and the availability of food resources. At the same time, females start spawning a year later.
First, small individuals go to spawning grounds, and large specimens follow them. Before the process of spawning, the scales of the bream begin to darken, and it itself becomes covered with white blue.
When the bream goes to spawn
The spawning period is directly related to climatic conditions. If you take the middle lane, then the bream may begin to spawn in mid-May or June. If we take into account warm regions, where the water heats up somewhat faster, then this fish can spawn as early as April. The bream perfectly feels how the water temperature rises. As soon as it reaches a certain point (+11°C), the fish immediately begins preparing for the breeding process.
As for our country, bream spawning starts in mid-April and can last up to 5-6 weeks. In Belarus, the bream starts spawning a little later. In any case, the most important indicator of the start of spawning is the water temperature.
Regardless of the region in which the bream is located, the spawning period can last up to 1,5 months. The end of spawning occurs when the water warms up to +22°C.
If you constantly measure the temperature of the water, you can clearly determine the beginning and end of spawning bream. At the same time, in each reservoir, water is heated differently, depending on the size of the reservoir and the presence of deep sources. This factor indicates that bream can spawn differently in different water bodies, regardless of the climatic zone. Although, in this case, the shift in the start of spawning is insignificant.
Where and how bream spawn
The bream prepares for spawning much earlier than the moment when it starts spawning. Around the beginning of March, he gathers in flocks and starts moving upstream against the current to find a suitable place. In reservoirs with stagnant water, the bream comes closer to the shore, in search of the necessary place. As a rule, the bream knows where they are, except that a person can intervene in this process. This period is characterized by the fact that the bream bites on any gear and fishing can be very productive.
Just before the start of spawning, when the water warms up to the desired temperature, males begin to fight for females. As a result, several groups can be formed, divided by age.
Bream spawns in spring flood conditions, choosing meadows flooded with spring water. On this grass, he lays his eggs. If there are no such places, then the bream can find other, suitable places. The main requirement is the presence of grass or other aquatic vegetation, to which fish eggs can stick. These are areas of the water area overgrown with reeds, sedges, reeds, etc. The spawning process of bream is very noisy and it is impossible not to notice it. The bream constantly jumps out of the water and falls back into the water with force.
Somewhere, in a week, fry will appear from its eggs, and in a month they will reach a size of more than 1 cm and will be able to feed on their own. Throughout the year, the fry will grow into scavengers, about 10 cm long.
Bream after spawning
After spawning is completed, the bream does not stay long in these areas and leaves them after about two days. He moves to deep areas and takes a kind of break to rest. Moreover, at this time he refuses to eat. The bream is found in deep-water areas all summer and only occasionally visits small areas of the water area in search of food. As a rule, this happens early in the morning, at sunrise. After two weeks after the end of spawning, the bream again begins to actively search for food.
The summer bite of bream begins with the advent of summer, when the spawning process is far behind. Depending on the region, this period may shift in one direction or the other. Moreover, after spawning zhor bream lasts for two months. It is characterized by the fact that the bream actively takes all the nozzles of various origins: both vegetable and animal. From the end of July and throughout the month of August, bream biting is not very active.
The spawning period of bream, and other fish, is a very crucial moment that deserves some attention. It is very important to give the fish the opportunity to spawn so that fry are born, without which the fish have no future. Following the fish, the future of all mankind may also be in question. After all, it is no secret to anyone that fish is one of the main sources of food, and for some peoples living in the basins of large rivers, seas and oceans – the main source of food. Therefore, the spawning process cannot be underestimated.
Video “How bream spawns”
Bream spawning, even catch it with your hands.