Danube bleak gravel bottoms. The females arrive later and deposit about twenty thousand eggs which stick to stones and gravel. These hatch after two or three days and the larvae stay among the gravel for another ten days before moving to backwaters and shallows where they feed on zooplankton, insect larvae and algae. The juvenile fish migrate down stream in the autumn or the spring of the following year. They may become mature in four to five years. Danube bleak The Danube bleak or Caspian shemaya ("Alburnus chalcoides") is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in
Bleak Expectations series, titled "A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled", was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 6.30pm on 20 November 2012. "The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff", a televisual spiritual successor to "Bleak Expectations", written and produced by the same crew, was first broadcast on BBC Two on 19 December 2011. A novel of "Bleak Expectations" written by Mark Evans was published in November 2012 by Constable & Robinson. While it is clear from the general context that Bleak Expectations is set in the 19th Century, there are various references to real-life people and events, suggesting the following chronology: November 1805: