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Practical 3 - Weed fish and predatory fish
Practical 3 - Weed fish and predatory fish
Introduction
- Undesirable in culture systems
- Small in size and uneconomical
- Compete with food, space and DO with cultivable species
- Spawn in summer and proliferate becoming abundant in monsoon
- Have high fecundity and hardy
- Need to be eradicated to enhance production of desirable species
Weed fish mostly belong to orders cypriniformes and cyprinodontiformes
Cypriniformes
- Family Cyprinidae
- Puntius sp
- Rasbora daniconius
- Garra lamta
- Danio equipinnatus
- Family: Anabantidae
- Macropodus sp.
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
- Aplocheilus lineatus
- Ambasis sp.
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