About the Book: Farmers and Scientific Fish Culture
The humped featherback, Chitala chitala (Hamilton, 1822) represents an
important fishery resource in different parts of South-East Asia and
particularly in India. But due to overexploitation and habitat degradation this
species has been categorised as endangered (EN) in the Conservation Assessment
and Management Plan, 1998 and Near threatened by IUCN (2014). Therefore,
large-scale farming would not only ensure the sustainable resource utilisation
and biodiversity conservation, but also will help to widen the consumers
preference for this new candidate species to diversify Indian freshwater
aquaculture. For the successful culture practice the entire knowledge on the
particular species is very important. Thus,