Fish Introductions in India: Status, Potential and Challenges

Foreword. Preface. 1. Biotic invasions: an overview/T. Ramakrishna Rao. 2. A review of fish introductions in India/S.D. Tripathi. 3. Problems and prospects of exotic fishes in India/P.V. Dehadrai. 4. Impacts of fish introductions: a global perspective/Ambekar E. Eknath, Chindi Vasudevappa and Basvaraju. 5. Challenging experiences of exotic fish introductions: an overview/P. Das. 6. Fish introduction in peninsular India with special reference to Kerala: status, challenges and potential/B. Madhusoodana Kurup and K.V. Radhakrishnan. 7. Status of exotic fishes introduced in India and their impact/R.A. Khan, R.P. Barman and S.S. Mishra. 8. Do we need to import fish in India?/M.P. Singh Kohli. 9. African catfish in India/A.K. Singh and W.S. Lakra. 10. Spread of exotic fishes of river Yamuna/A.K. Singh, A.K. Pathak, Salim Sultan, A. Mishra and W.S. Lakra. 11. A note on aquaculture of exotic species in Andhra Pradesh/K. Ravindranath. 12. Challenges posed by exotic catfish, clarias gariepinus for Indian fisheries/I.J. Singh. 13. Impact of exotic Cichlid, orechromis mossambicus on native cichlid, etroplus suratenesis from Kerala backwaters/V.S. Basheer, A. Gopalakrishnan and W.S. Lakra. 14. Exotic fishes and biodiversity/N. Sarangi. 15. Status and role of exotic fish species in Indian open-waters/K.K. Vass and B.C. Jha. 16. Introduction of Tilapia in India: status, challenges and potential/G.P. Satyanarayana Rao. 17. Ornamental fish introductions in India: status, challenges and potentials/Sharad R. Sane. 18. Introduction of Litopenaeus vannamei: a boon or bane?/P. Ravichandran. 19. Introduction of exotics for export oriented aquaculture in India: challenges and opportunities/B. Vishnu Bhat. 20. Larvivorous fish introductions in India and its implications on biodiversity/S.K. Ghosh and A.P. Dash. 21. Status of exotic fish species in upland waters of India/P.C. Mahanta and Shyam Sunder. 22. Ballast water: a potential route for introduction of non-indigenous aquatic organisms/Neeraj Sood, Gaurav Rathore, A.K. Singh and T. Raja Swaminathan. 23. Role of quarantine in regulating the introduction of exotic flora and fauna/R.K. Khetarpal and Kavita Gupta. 24. Challenges of sate introduction: a public-private partnership/T.C. Santiago and A.G. Ponniah. 25. Disease monitoring and control in aquaculture sector issues for consideration/G.D. Chandrapal. 26. Introduced food fishes of Karnataka: an overview/K.V. Devaraj, Y. Basvaraju and D. Seenappa. 27. Exotic fish infiltration in Rihand Reservoir (Uttar Pradesh): a case study/Noorul Haque, Arvind Mishra, A.K. Singh and A.K. Pathak. 28. Exotic fishes in Karnataka: their history, status and prospects/N.R. Ramakrishna. 29. Status and potentials of exotic carps introduced into the Manipur State/K. Sarat Kumar Singh. 30. Status of exotic fishes, their introduction and role in Himachal Fisheries/B.D. Sharma. 31. Freshwater ichthyo-biodiversity: changes and challenges/Salim Sultan. 32. Exotic fish in ornamental fish industries and food fish in West Bengal/Madhumita Mukherjee. 33. Exotic fishes of freshwater aquaculture: an overview/C.S. Singh and P.K. Singh. 34. Status of exotic fishes in Haryana/S.C. Agarwal and M.S. Kharb. 35. Fish introduction in India–status, challenges, potentials/T. Selvaraj. 36. Fish introduction in Rajasthan status, challenges and potentiality/C.S. Choudhary.