Biodiversity of Fish Fauna in Jivrekha Reservoir Akola Dev District Jalna, Maharashtra
Pradip J. Misal
Department of Zoology Siddharth Arts, Commerce and Science college Jafrabad-431206 (India) Email Id: pradipm198@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The fresh water fish resource of Maharashtra constitutes 6 orders 25 families and 160 species. There are many species like Oriochromis, Grass carp, Common crap, silver crap etc. that have been introduced in the inland water of Maharashtra. The entire region comes under four basins Viz. Narmada, Tapi, Godavari and Krishna. Due to irrational fishing practices, environmental aberrations like reduction in water volume, increased sedimentation, water abstraction and pollution over the years this diversity is on a decline. The present study deals with the fish fauna of a Jivrekha reservoir, basically represents the diversity and their abundance. Fishes plays a very significant role in the human economy by providing pretentious food. Present study was carried out to know about the fish fauna of Jivrekha lake during June 2018-May 2019. Fish fauna of this reservoir represented by 24 species.