New addition to the collection - a replica of a burbot (Lota lota Linnaeus, 1758).

(Lota lota Linnaeus, 1758).

We would like to show you an exhibit that has already been exhibited at two exhibitions, but in this form, mounted on a stand, we are presenting it for the first time. Here is a replica of a burbot, which was made by museum taxidermist Oksana Mbita Ebele, based on a cast of a real meter-long fish.

Burbot or common burbot (Lota lota Linnaeus, 1758) is the only exclusively freshwater fish of the order Gadidae.

Burbot is more active in cold water. Spawning occurs in winter in December-February, the most successful fishing is at the first frost from dusk to dawn. It feeds on invertebrates and small fish. Older individuals eat juvenile bottom fish, as well as frogs, crayfish, and mollusks. May eat decaying animals. There are both sedentary (living in lakes and small rivers, usually shallow) and semi-anadromous forms (for example, burbot of the Ob River). Semi-anadromous forms make long migrations (over a thousand kilometers per year). They have larger sizes (often more than a meter in length, weight more than 5-6 kg and age up to 15-24 years). Females do not spawn annually, skipping one or two seasons to restore the body’s energy reserves. Most males participate in spawning annually.

On the territory of Russia, burbot is distributed everywhere in reservoirs of the Arctic and temperate zones, in the basins of the Baltic, White, Barents, Black and Caspian seas and in the basins of all Siberian rivers from the Ob to Anadyr along their entire length. Distributed in the Volga.

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