Finfish Breeding and Hatchery Management

Unit 1 - Fish seed resources and natural breeding of finfishes

1.1.6. Other freshwater resources

Reservoir fish seed resources

• The reservoirs in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, by virtue of their being connected with the Ganga river system, have a natural stock of major carps.
• But in view of a large volume of water impounded by them, the original stock is being supplemented by stocking them regularly with major carp fingerlings.
• The reservoirs across other basins, however, do not have a natural stock of major carps. Hence, major carp fingerlings produced elsewhere were brought and released in them.

Cultivable Carps

Catla catla Labeo rohita

Cirrhinus mrigala Labeo fimbriatus

Grass carp Silver carp

Common carp