New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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SYNOPTIC SURVEYS OF LAKES ROTORUA AND ROTOITI

G. R. Fish

Fisheries Research Division, Marine Department, Rotorua

M. A. Chapman

Zoology Department, University of Auckland

Abstract Surface and bottom water samples were collected from 39 widely spaced stations in Lake Rotorua in February 1967 and from 12 stations in Lake Rotoiti in March 1967. In Lake Rotorua, data obtained from these samples showed that small horizontal differences existed between the southern and northern parts of the lake probably related to the higher inflow of plant nutrients at the southern end and to the prevailing southerly wind concentrating phytoplankton populations at the northern end. Lake Rotoiti, which differed from Lake Rotorua in being thermally stratified, showed no important horizontal differences, Vigorous mixing in the strata probably being accomplished by deep seiches except in the shallow western basin of the lake, where the inflow from Lake Rotorua occurs. Serial vertical hauls for a zooplankton survey of Lake Rotoiti were taken from three stations in March 1967. The distribution of zooplankton was complex because diurnal vertical migrations of the animals were combined with horizontal movement of the water layers.

N.Z. Jl mar. Freshwat. Res. 3: 571-84
(Received for publication 19 August 1968)

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