Ornamental fisheries, especially rearing and breeding of freshwater aquarium fish have gained popularity in India over the last two decades or so. North-eastern India being one of the meg-diversity regions in south Asia, the aquarium fish traders obviously identified the region, especially the floodplains of the Brahmaputra River as ahunting ground for exploitation of endemic and colourful fish species and their export to the far eastern countries. But what is ...
