India is rich in its Indian Fish Fauna with about 940 species known from its rivers, lakes and estuaries. This Constitutes about 38% of the Indian ichthyofauna, which are of considerable economics and scientific value. Of these about 500 species are primary freshwater fishes with around 65% endemic, cloistered in the two hot spots of India, the Western Ghats and the North East. Today freshwater fishes are considered to be the world’s most threatened group ...
