NATIONAL SEMINAR ON THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEMS: IMPACTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE (17-19 November, 2014) ABSTRACTS ORGANIZED BY DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY & VIRONMENTAL SCIENCE GURUKULA KANGRI UNIVERSITY, HARIDWAR IN AUSPICES WITH INDIAN ACADEMY OF ENVIRONME TAL SCIENCES, HARIDWAR EDITORS DR. AMIT KUMAR, AMAR SINGH, SADHNA AWASTHI AND NAVJEEVAN DADWAL SPONSORED BY tate ASSISTANC! i PROGRAMME, NEW. pezou to Bladiwersity and Heasystems: Impacts of Developmental Diptera and Crustacea) represented by 21 genera and Mollusca (classes, Gatropoda and Bivalvia) represented by Sgenera. Of all the 3 macrophytes Colocasia esculenta was found to host maximum number of macroinvertebrates (4536 organisms/m*) followed by Eichhornia crassipes (3276 organisms/m’) and least abundance was found on Nausturtium officinales (1344 organisms/m*)- Class Insecta showed maximum abundance (2688organisms/m’) on Colocasia esculenta while it showed maximum diversity on Eichhornia crassipes. So the order of dominance of associations between macroinvertebrates and aquatic macrophytes was recorded as; Colocasia esculenta > Eichhornia crassipes » Nausturtium officinales ABSTRACT — 27 ORNAMENTAL FISH BIODIVERSITY OF SUNDARBANS - CURRENT POTENTIALS, THREATS & MANAGEMENT ISSUES. TUS, B. K. Mahapatra’ and W. S. Lakra” CAR -Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Kolkata Centre, Sector-V, Kolkata — 700 091. *1CAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Seven Bunglows, Varsova, Mumbai — 40006 E-mail: bkmahapatra@cife.edu.in Fish Biodiversity a source of food and nutrition, fish genetic resources are also important source of various produéts of pharmaceutical and other commercial value and sustain other related trades like oramental fishes. Biodiversity and its conservation are regarded as one of the major issues of enabling sustainable use of natural resources. The Indian Sundarbans (latitude 21° 32'-22°40'N, longitude 88° 22’- 89°0'E) in the north east coast of India occupy 9630 square kilometre and are bounded by River Hooghly in the West, River Raimangal in the East, Bay of Bengal in the South and Dampier Hodges line in the North. The diversified fin fish and shell fish resources of the Sundarbans consists freshwater, brackish water and marine species have been found to have ornamental values. The exporters are already sending them to the overseas as ‘Indian Aquarium Fish’. The diverse jeatures, which they possess, attract hobbyists in many parts of the world. Most of these ornamental fishes display beautiful bright colourations, while some possess bands and stripes. ‘There are few species, Which have a chameleonic habit and few others possess transparent body. Some of the important native ornamental fishes of the region include the barbs, butter fish, danios, eels, glass fishes, gouramis, loaches, mudskipper, puffer fish and snakeheads. High salinity, low water table, acidity problem, pollution, overfishing, destruction of juvenile and prawn seed collection is a major concern on fish biodiversity. The development and implementation of appropriate Fish biodiversity management strategy in general and omamental fish diversity management strategies of the Sundarbans in particular will be a challenging task and requires concerted efforts and requires a lot of dedicated collaborative research and management approach which must involve actively grass root level people and’ traditional knowledge. Our study addresses the challenging issues for sustaining ornamental fish biodiversity and management issues. 17-19 November, 2014, Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar |