Editing Lake Balaton (section)

=== Fish ===
About fifty of Hungary's seventy-six native freshwater fish species occur.  The littoral reed belt shelters cyprinids (common bream *''Abramis brama''*, bleak *''Alburnus alburnus''*), predator nurseries for pike-perch (*''Sander lucioperca''*) and northern pike (*''Esox lucius''*), and native endemics such as weather loach (*''Misgurnus fossilis''*).  Feeding studies show cyprinids shift from zooplankton to benthic prey as they move inshore during summer.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Specziár |first=A. |last2=Tölg |first2=L. |last3=Bíró |first3=P. |year=1997 |title=Feeding strategy and growth of cyprinids in the littoral zone of Lake Balaton |journal=Journal of Fish Biology |volume=51 |issue=6 |pages=1109–1124 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01130.x}}</ref>  
Commercial fishing has been banned since 2013; invasive gobiids (*''Neogobius melanostomus''*) and Prussian carp (*''Carassius gibelio''*) are increasingly targeted by recreational harvest regulations.