Inland Fisheries

Procedure

• Visit a estuary based landing centre
• Make students into various groups based on the class strength of the students
• Collect one or two fish specimens for each species and bring to laboratory
• Collect the vernacular name for each species
• Observe the morphological features,measure the morpometric features and count meristic features for each specimen collected
• Identify each species with the help offish species identification sheets / field identification guides
• If it is difficult to identify, keep the specimen in the insulated box filled with ice and bring to the laboratory and confirm the identity
• Make a note of characters of order,family, genus and species with their systematic position, scientific name,common name and vernacular name
• Make illustrations for each species