• DOI:10.1007/s11160-011-9218-6
Corpus ID: 16719029

Freshwater fish biodiversity in the River Ganga (India): changing pattern, threats and conservation perspectives

@article{Sarkar2011FreshwaterFB,
  title={Freshwater fish biodiversity in the River Ganga (India): changing pattern, threats and conservation perspectives},
  author={U. Sarkar and A. K. Pathak and Rajeev Kumar Sinha and K. Sivakumar and A. K. Pandian and A. Pandey and V. Dubey and W. S. Lakra},
  journal={Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries},
  year={2011},
  volume={22},
  pages={251-272}
}

U. Sarkar, A. K. Pathak, +5 authors W. S. Lakra

Published 2011

Biology

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries

The river Ganges is the largest river in India and the fifth longest in the world. Although, many studies on fish ecology and systematic have been conducted largely to improve fisheries but fish diversity and their distribution pattern from conservation point of view have never been adequately addressed in the Ganges. In this connection, current distribution and abundance of freshwater fishes of river Ganges was studied and assessed from April 2007 to March 2009. We documented and described 143… CONTINUE READING

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