National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Reservoirs are the “Sleeping giants of Indian Fisheries”. The Palair reservoir is a tributary of river Krishna located at Palair village of Kusumanchi mandal, Khammam district, Telangana state, India. It is balancing reservoir of Nagarjuna Sagar left canal. Besides being the source of irrigation, electricity generation, it is also surviving as sole source of aquaculture activity providing nutritional security, employment and livelihood to fishermen cooperative societies of Khammam and Nalgonda districts. Its aquaculture production is representing the whole Telangana region. A study was undertaken to collect baseline data on the ecological features and fish and fisheries. The data on fish community, plankton and physiological parameters were recorded at fortnightly intervals. The fish fauna was comprised of major carps, exotic carps, minor carps, cat fishes, freshwater prawns and large populations of trash fishes. This study on Palair reservoir gained knowledge on its production potentiality, Icthyofauna and shell fisheries. This will stimulate and initiate action towards conservation of threatened fish resources, judicious exploitation of economically important species and also for further enhancing the ranching of seed in Palair Reservoir and upgrade socio-economic status of fishermen community.
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