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Fish Diversity and the Conservation Status of a Wetland of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India OPEN ACCESS The Journal of Threatened Taxa is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use of artcles in any medium, reproducton, and distributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication Fish diversity and the conservation status of a wetland of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India Ram Krishna Das 26 March 2018 | Vol. 10 | No. 3 | Pages: 11423-11431 10.11609/jot.3404.10.3.11423-11431 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies and Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct visit htp://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints contact <[email protected]> Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 March 2018 | 10(3): 11423–11431 Fish diversity and the conservation status of a wetland of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India Communication Ram Krishna Das ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Department of Industrial Fish and Fisheries, Asutosh College, 92, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Road, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 026, India OPEN ACCESS [email protected] Abstract: A study was carried out from March 2016 to February 2017 to investgate the diversity of fshes and the conservaton status of Bochamari Beel, a natural wetland of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India. The study revealed the occurrence of 40 species of fshes belonging to 31 genera under six orders and 15 families. Cyprinidae was the dominant family with 14 species followed by Channidae with four species, Ambassidae and Bagridae with three species each, Nandidae, Mastacembelidae, Belontidae, Siluridae and Clariidae with two species each whereas Cobitdae, Belonidae, Gobiidae, Anabantdae, Tetraodontdae and Notopteridae were represented by a single species each. The status of species of this beel included one Endangered species, one Vulnerable species and four Near Threatened species. The maximum fsh diversity was recorded in the monsoon season (H’=2.876) as compared with pre monsoon (H’=2.124) and post monsoon (H’ =1.735). The evenness index varied from 0.640 (post monsoon) to 0.822 (monsoon), which indicates uneven distributon of fshes in this beel. Indiscriminate fshing throughout the year, along with extensive weed infestaton could be responsible for depleton of fsh diversity in this beel. Keywords: Bochamari Beel, fsh diversity, threatened fsh, wetland. DOI: htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3404.10.3.11423-11431 | ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:07D56A96-8DC1-4476-813D-FFB8ED2C7D22 Editor: Neelesh Dahanukar, IISER, Pune, India. Date of publicaton: 26 March 2018 (online & print) Manuscript details: Ms # 3404 | Received 09 March 2017 | Final received 31 January 2018 | Finally accepted 25 March 2018 Citaton: Das, R.K. (2018). Fish diversity and the conservaton status of a wetland of Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(3): 11423–11431; htp://doi.org/10.11609/jot.3404.10.3.11423-11431 Copyright: © Das 2018. Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License. JoTT allows unrestricted use of this artcle in any medium, reproducton and dis- tributon by providing adequate credit to the authors and the source of publicaton. Funding: None. Competng interests: The author declares no competng interests. Author Details: Shri Ram Krishna Das is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Fish and Fisheries, Asutosh College. He obtained his master degree in Zoology (Specializaton- Fish Biology) in 2005 from Visva-Bharat and qualifed NET (CSIR) in Life Sciences in 2010. His interested feld of research are fsh diversity, taxonomy and fsh toxicology. Acknowledgements: The author wish to express deep grattude to Dr. Dipak Kumar Kar, Principal, Asutosh College for permission and facilites. Author is grateful to Shri Tanmoy Sarkar (Assistant teacher, Putmari High School, Cooch Behar) for assistng during the sampling of fshes and to all fshermen of Bochamari Beel for giving the opportunity for data collecton. The author is also grateful to Shri Rahul Mondal (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Industrial Fish and Fisheries, Asutosh College) and Dr. Satyam Kumar Kundu (Faculty member, Dept. of Industrial Fish and Fisheries, Asutosh College) for giving valuable suggestons during the manuscript writng. 11423 Fish diversity and status of a Cooch Behar wetland Das INTRODUCTION bodies of varying sizes, namely, Rasik Beel, Raichangmari Beel, Bochamari Beel, Sakobhanga Beel and Noldoba According to the Ramsar Conventon, wetlands are Beel. The nature of the beels is of the ox-bow lake and areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural formed by the meandering of the Raidak, Sakobhanga or artfcial, permanent or temporary, with water that is and Ghoramara rivers (Roy et al. 2012). Most of the statc or fowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas beels of the RBWC become well connected only during of marine water, the depth of which at low tde does not the monsoon months of a year. Bochamari Beel is a exceed six meters (Ramsar Conventon Secretariat 2013). perennial beel which retains water throughout the year. Wetlands are classifed into fve categories such as (a) On the basis of riverine connecton, the Bochamari Beel oxbow lake, (b) fresh water lakes, (c) fresh water ponds, may be termed as a closed beel as it is completely cut-of (d) marshes, swamps and bogs, and (e) reservoirs (Kar from the nearest rivers and receives water mostly from et al. 2007). India has extensive food plains in the form their catchment areas following the monsoon rains. of oxbow lakes such as beels, jheels, mauns, and chaurs Bochamari Beel has remained as a major resource for especially in the states of West Bengal and adjoining capture fsheries and serves as a means of livelihood places, like Assam and Bihar. Beels are shallow, nutrient for about fve hundred fshermen families. The fshing rich water bodies formed due to a change in course of actvites are totally prohibited in the remaining beels of a river. Some of these retain connecton with the main the Rasik Beel wetland complex. river, at least during monsoons, while others have lost it Fish consttutes almost half of the total number of permanently. These are perennial wetlands that contain vertebrates in the world. Indian freshwater fsh diversity water throughout the year (Kar et al. 2007). Beels of is very rich with as many as 1,027 species, comprising Assam generally possess high potental for in situ fsh primary, secondary and alien freshwater fshes. Among producton. A number of them also provide a collecton them primary freshwater fshes include 858 species sink for fsh produced in the surrounding fooded belonging to 167 genera under 40 families and 12 orders. catchments. The average yield of Assam on the basis Further, 137 species of secondary freshwater fshes that of enquiries made in 23 beels in the state was 173kg/ha frequently enter and thrive in freshwater reaches of (Bhatacharjya & Sugunan 2000). rivers are also known from India. Thirty-two species of Northern Bengal comprises those districts of West alien fshes belonging to 21 genera of nine families and Bengal that lie north of the river Ganga. The term seven orders are found in the fresh water systems of does not denote any natural division and is purely an India. Out of this, 16 species are well known, potental administratve connotaton. Seven districts consttute invasive alien fshes in India (Gopi et al. 2017). On the northern Bengal. These are: Malda, South Dinajpur, other hand West Bengal contains about 207 freshwater North Dinajpur, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and fshes (Sanyal et al. 2012). The most comprehensive Cooch Behar. Faunistcally, however, these areas are account of the fsh fauna of northern Bengal was numerous in variety and taxonomically interestng. This published by Shaw & Shebbeare (1938). They listed may be because of the rich Himalayan foothills with about 131 species in their treatse whereas, Jayaram the numerous streams and major rivers rushing to the & Singh (1977) recorded about 96 species of fshes in plains through these districts (Jayaram & Singh 1977). A northern Bengal. Due to the presence of a number of large number of wetlands in the form of beels are found threatened, endemic and unique/interestng species in in northern Bengal, especially in the district of Cooch northern Bengal, this region might be considered as a Behar. Bochamari Beel is one of the very important “Hot Spot” of fsh resources of West Bengal (Barman natural wetlands located in the subdivision Tufanganj 2007). of the district of Cooch Behar. It is a part of Rasik Beel Das et al. (2013) studied the faunal diversity of RBWC, wetland complex (Das et al. 2013). The Rasik Beel Cooch Behar. They reported the occurrence of 53 species wetland complex (RBWC) is the largest wetland complex of fshes belonging to nine orders, 22 families and 11 sub in Cooch Behar District of West Bengal covering around families in diferent beels of Rasik Beel wetland complex. 18.40km2 of area of which the wetland occupies almost They also reported the occurrence of 173 species of 1.78km2 area. The Ministry of Environment, Forest & birds, four annelids, 49 arthropods, six molluscans, fve Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, has amphibians, six reptllian and nine mammalian species. identfed 94 wetlands of natonal importance, many of A detailed study of fsh diversity and the conservaton which are protected areas including Rasik Beel (NWCP status in Bochamari Beel, however, is lacking.
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