Inland Fisheries

3.3.2.1 The river Mahanadi

It is a river of eastern India. The Mahanadi rises in the Satpura Range of central India, and flows east to the Bay of Bengal. The Mahanadi drains most of the state of Chhattisgarh and much of Orissa and also Jharkhand and Maharashtra. It has a length of about 860 km. Near the city of Sambalpur, a large dam, the Hirakud Dam is on the river.

Fish and Fisheries of Mahanadi

The river mainly harbours the hill stream fishes. The most common fishes are Chela untrahi, Erethistes conta and Arius gagora.