the systematics, morphology, distribution, biology, economic importance and conservation of the freshwater catfishes of iran are described, the species are illustrated, and a bibliography on these fishes is provided. there are four families with four genera and six species, one of which is an exotic; the family bagridae with one genus and species, mystus pelusius in the persian gulf, hormuz and...

The fish consumption has been increasing throughout the world with improved awareness among consumers and culture of fish; an important source of proteinaceous foods for human has become popular during the last few decades in entire Indian subcontinent (Kumar, 2007; Prasad and Kumar, 2007; Saxsena and Garg, 2010). In recent past there has been reports of poor quality fish with high metal conten...

Population growth (length-weight relationship), and reproductive potential (e.g. fecundity, and sex-ratio) of five important fish species (‘mola’: Amblypharyngodon mola, ‘puti’: Puntius sophore, ‘tengra’: Mystus vittatus, ‘shing’: Heteropneustes fossilis and ‘taki’: Channa punctatus) collected from two important fresh waters bodies (namely Hilna beel and Beel Kumari beel) Rajshahi, Bangladesh, ...