“…Lack of gene flow concomitant with small effective population size resulted in a loss of genetic variation. Our GST value (GST= 0.198) proved lower than that found in brown trout from France (Krieg & Guyomard, 1985), Greece (Karakousis & Triantaphyllidis, 1990), Spain (Garcia-Mann et a!., 1991; Martinez et a!., 1993), Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland (Ferguson, 1989), demonstrating that partitioning of gene diversity in southwest Germany differed from the situation observed in those quoted populations. Only Danish populations in tributaries of Lake Hald revealed still lower GST values (GST=O.O47) (Møller Hansen eta!., 1993), whereas GST= 0.11 was observed for Danish brown trout from the Limfjord catchment (Landbo & Persson, 1987cited in Møller Hansen et al, 1993.…”