GOVERNMENT OF BIHAR - Animal & Fish Resources

Fisheries Policy 2008Adequate technical and financial support will be made available tofarners and entrepreneurs for establishing cat fish hatcheries forcommercial production of seed. Extension system will be strengthenedto popularize cat fish culture and ensure easy availability of cat fishseeds and popularize commercial production with annual additional0.5 to 2 tons of cat fish / ha.Important ornamental fishes like Chanda ranga, Chanda nama,Colisa fasciata, Colisa lalia, Gudusia chapra and others like sandloach, tiger barbs Puntius sps, etc. are found in chaurs and lakes.Specialized training programme for fisher and especially women shallbe arranged for identification and culture of ornamental fishes.Integrated fish farming will be encouraged wherein poultry, duckery,piggery, cattle rearing, floriculture, horticulture and food grainproduction will be integrated at the farm level to maximize the returnper unit land and water resources and minimize the cost. Properinterventions would be done to motivate farmers and convergedifferent schemes owing to different commodities for benefit offarmers. The concept of small-scale aquaculture is an importantelement of family farming system. A section of small fish inhabiting floodplains and ox-bow lakes are vanishing fast. Such fishes are consideredtrash / weed fishes under composite fish culture. Now they are found tofetch higher market price than carps. Efforts will be made to harnesssuch indigenous species by incorporating them in the fish productionprogram. Such an effort will also help protect the declining fishbiodiversity.9. Management of Riverine FisheriesThe riverine resources consist of 3,200 km of rivers across the Stateand 1,00,000 ha of perennial riverine command area. Capture fisheriesis practiced to some extent with declining fish catch due to habitatdegradation, pollution of rivers upstream, use of destructive fishing13