Changes in Diversity Patterns of Fish after Construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam-A case Study of Barwani District M.P. India
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dominance of species, overfishing, Habitat destruction, exotic speciesAbstract
Present study was conducted to study the changes in fish diversity of Narmada River at Barwani district M.P. after construction of Sardar sarovar dam, from July 2016 to June 2017. Total seven sampling stations were selected such as Site-I Khalghat, Site-2 Rajghat, Site-3-Chikhalda, Site-4-Bhilkheda, Site-5-Pichodi, Site-6-Bijasan and Site-7-Morkatta. In total 26 species of fishes were recorded, among which order Cypriniformes dominated with 16 species, and family wise family Cyprinidae was dominant with 16 species followed by family Bagridae with 5 five species. Siluridae with 2 species, and Ambasidae 1 species. Channidae 1species. Notopteridae 1species. Among the sampling station Khalghat showed a maximum number of fish species recorded 25 during the study, while as at Bhilkheda, Pichodi sites minimum number of fish species were recorded as 10. It was found that the number of species reported during the present study showed a declining trend which is mainly due to the habitat destruction, introduction of exotic species and overfishing.
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