About the Book: Fishing with Electricity
The book envisages the use of under-water electric field for catching fish. The
use of electricity for catching fish has been practiced from a long time by the
fishermen of different regions, the recorded evidence of which goes to 1886,
when one Mr. Isham Bagg was issued a patent in Britain for catching fish with
electricity. The author is the first person, who undertook fishing with electric
seine as early as 1962 in Odisha, and in 2015 by developing an electric fish
catcher. Originally, after several studies on fish electrophysiology, in
different countries, the technique was applied in freshwater fisheries,