02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:27:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Chernobyl, Ukraine 2014 to 2015 2019-03-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 10.5285/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 doi: Lerebours, A., Smith, J.T. (2019). Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Chernobyl, Ukraine 2014 to 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 Data comprise health, reproductive status and relative abundance of mature perch and roach collected in September 2014, March 2015, June 2015 and September 2015 from lakes in Belarus and Ukraine. Measurements presented include age, weight, length, presence of external signs of disease and presence of macroscopic tumors. The Fulton condition index (K), hepatosomatic index (HSI) and gonadosomatic index (GSI) of fish are also presented. The lakes (selected according to hydrological properties and long-term exposure to a gradient of radiation dose) are situated at distances from 1.5 to 225 km of the Chernobyl NPP. Glubokoye, Yanovsky lakes and Cooling Pond are the high (H) contaminated lakes, Svyatoye Lake is a medium (M) contaminated lake, and Stoyacheye, Dvoriche and Gorova lakes are the low (L) contaminated lakes. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 Lerebours, A. University of Portsmouth adelaide.lerebours@port.ac.uk author Smith, J.T. University of Portsmouth Jim.smith@port.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Guler, Y. University of Portsmouth yasminguler@hotmail.com pointOfContact fish GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Ukraine GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Radioecology Chornobyl Chernobyl otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions © University of Portsmouth otherRestrictions © Environment Agency otherRestrictions © Radioactive Waste Management otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Lerebours, A., Smith, J.T. (2019). Impact of environmental radiation on the health and reproductive status of fish from Chernobyl, Ukraine 2014 to 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 textTable English utf8 biota environment 2014-01-01 2015-12-31 29.5 31 50.5 51.5 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/02a53248-1bfd-4f1e-8f76-888551635c98 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Health and reproductive status was assessed in perch and roach of similar weight and length collected in September 2014, March 2015 and September 2015 from lakes in Belarus and Ukraine using gill nets of 20 m length and 21 mm mesh size to ensure capture of homogeneous groups of mature fish. Relative abundance of fish species in each lake was evaluated by recording the number of fish caught for each species during an additional sampling session in June 2015. Scales were sampled for age determination. Body weight, total length, and presence of external signs of disease and macroscopic tumors were noted for each fish. The Fulton condition index (K), hepatosomatic index (HSI) and gonadosomatic index (GSI) of fish were determined as K = body weight/ (total length (cm)3) x 100; HSI = (liver weight/body weight) x 100 and GSI = (gonad weight/body weight) x 100, respectively. Lakes were selected according to hydrological properties and long-term exposure to a gradient of radiation dose. The lakes are situated at distances from 1.5 to 225 km of the Chernobyl NPP. Glubokoye, Yanovsky lakes and Cooling Pond are the high (H) contaminated lakes, Svyatoye Lake is a medium (M) contaminated lake, and Stoyacheye, Dvoriche and Gorova lakes are the low (L) contaminated lakes.