Fish diversity of Pumlen Lake in Manipur with a Note  on Traditional Fish Catching Devices

Ngasepam Romen Singh; Biplab Kumar Das; M. Shomorendra; Devashish Kar

Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2013

Fish diversity of Pumlen Lake in Manipur with a Note on Traditional Fish Catching Devices

Ngasepam Romen Singh, Biplab Kumar Das, M. Shomorendra, Devashish Kar

Abstract :

Fish is an excellent source of food. Fish constitutes almost half of the total number of verteates in the world. Our country occupies 9th position in terms of fresh water mega biodiversity. The surveyed on fish diversity of Pumlen Lake in Manipur were carried out during January to December, 2012. A total of 40 species of fishes belonging to 27 genera, under 14 families and 7 orders were reported during my study period. Order Cypriniformes with maximum number of 22 fish species followed by Perciformes with 7 fish species and order Beloniformes with only 2 fish species. Of these, the most abundant is Channa puntata (6.39%), Tilapia mossambica (6.12%) followed by Amblypharyngodon mola (5.84%) and Glossogobius guiris was least abundant (0.33%).