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Fish diversity, habitat characterisation and fish community structure in a

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 Fish diversity, habitat characterisation and fish community structure in a sub-
tropical reservoir, Uttar Pradesh, India
Absar Alam1, Jeetendra Kumar1, Uttam Kumar Sarkar2, Dharma Nath Jha1,Venkatesh RamaRaoThakur1,
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Saket Kumar Srivastava , Vijay Kumar , Rama Shankar Srivastava and Basanta Kumar Das 2
1ICAR-CIFRI, Regional Centre, Allahabad – 211 002, Uttar Pradesh
2ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, West Bengal-700120.

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country.
Currently, the fish yield from the Indian reservoirs is poor and may be Fig 2 & 3 . Diversity (Shanon-wiener) index and Peilou Index of
attributed to the improper management and lack of understanding of the equitability (J) in the different zones and seasons in the Jargo
ecological principles governing these ecosystems (Lianthuamluaia et al. reservoir
2019; Sarkar et al. 2017). Analysis of variance indicated that the composition of the fish
The seasonal as well spatial gradients in the reservoir area influences the assemblage differed significantly between river and lacustrine zones,
patterns in the organisation of the ichthyofaunal assemblage across the and between river and transitional zones and it was insignificant
space (Terra et al. 2010). In this regard, it is important to understand how between transitional and lacustrine zones with respect to species
fish assemblages are structured by greatly varying limno-chemical traits in abundance while it did not differ significantly between the seasons
a sub-tropical reservoir ecosystem. Table1 Limnological parameters of the Jargo reservoir (mean ± SD)
The studies regarding the biodiversity and structure of assemblages of Seasons Zones
fishes have not been done hitherto on this reservoir, in spite of its Temperature (0C)
Summer
31.66a ± 1.48
Monsoon
30.81a ± 1.17
Winter
18.37b ± 0.72
Riverine
26.92a ± 6.94
Transitional
27.34a ± 6.56
Lacustrine
26.52a ± 6.12
significant contribution to the inland fish production, aquatic diversity and pH 8.43a ± 0.31 8.35a ± 0.77 7.71a ± 0.08 8.08a ± 0.55 8.16a ± 0.66 8.24a ± 0.54
Alkalinity (mg/l) 64.66a ± 5.11 49.44b ± 10.94 66.28a ± 3.67 58.93a ± 15.48 62.28a ± 9.04 59.17a ± 4.89
livelihood support in the region. Hence, an investigation on the fish Dissolved Oxygen (mg/l) 8.74a ± 0.82 6.33b ± 0.93 9.81a ± 0.91 8.50a ± 2.15 8.10a ± 2.26 8.28a ± 1.96
Specific conductivity (µS/cm) 227.8a ± 47.40 222.44a± 51.27 217.78a ± 3.46 250.22a ± 39.77 215.39b ± 37.16 202.41b ± 24.61
diversity, habitat characterisation and fish community structure in a sub- TDS (mg/l) 138.77a ± 30.48 144a ± 34.04 116.32a± 1.62 150.27a ± 32.72 128.03b ± 28.09 119.90b ± 13.05
Total hardness (mg/l) 74.72a ± 13.99 62.22a ± 7.84 67.89a ± 10.81 68.72a ± 7.64 68.22a ± 12.03 67.89a ± 16.08
tropical reservoir, Uttar Pradesh, India was undertaken. Phosphate (µg/l) 18.73a ± 10.2 91.11b ± 34.84 25.50b ± 14.74 54.66a ± 24.86 33.11b ± 34.4 29.32b ± 31.9
Silicate (mg/l) 3.11 ± 0.77a 1.70b ± 0.43 2.74a ± 0.99 2.43a ± 1.59 2.65a ± 1.52 2.48a ± 1.25
DiOM (mg/l) 1.81a ± 0.40 1.43b ± 0.15 1.25b ± 0.84 1.53a ± 0.83 1.41a ± 0.87 1.59a ± 0.88
Chlorophyll a (µg/l) 8.84a ± 5.06 5.81a ± 3.51 7.36a ± 1.62 6.23a ± 3.49 8.60a ± 3.37 7.17a ± 4.36

The data were collected seasonally

On the basis of Cluster analysis taking into consideration the
The data on fish diversity were collected through experimental fishing,
abundance of the ichthyofauna, the sampling sites resulted in the
employing gillnets.
formation of three major groups at Euclidean of 3.464.
Eleven physico-chemical parameters were examined following
standard protocols (APHA 2005).
The Shanon-Wiener diversity index (H’) and Peilou’s index of
Euatibility (J) were estimated by season and zone, using PAST
software (Hammer et al. 2001).
ANOVA test was carried out to determine the significant differences in
fish abundance and the physico-chemical parameters by seasons and
the zones, respectively.
The single-link method of hierarchical clustering technique was used to Fig.4 The dendrogram of sites in Fig 5 Biplot diagram using
construct the cluster dendrogram employing the vegan package of R. Jargo reservoir employing single CCA.
clustering method
The Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was performed using
the vegan package of R
The analysis of fish diversity and abundance across the temporal and
spatial gradient revealed the highest diversity and abundance in the
monsoon season and riverine zone of the reservoir. .
Our results indicated the different assemblage patterns in the riverine,
transitional, and the lacustrine zones of the reservoir and hence, we
suggest that an ecosystem-based management approaches should be
followed zone-wise in the reservoir for maintaining the fisheries in the
long term.

Fig. 1 Sampling sites in the Jargo reservoir

A total of 40 fish species belonging to 31 genera, 14 families and 7
orders were documented from the riverine, transitional and
lacustrine zones of the reservoir.
Analysis of variance indicated that the composition of the fish
assemblage differed significantly between river and lacustrine
zones, and between river and transitional zones and it was
insignificant between transitional and lacustrine zones with respect
to species abundance while it did not differ significantly between
the seasons
[APHA] American Public Health Association. 2005. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater, 21st
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Lianthuamluaia, L., Mishal, P., Panda, D., Sarkar, U. K., Kumar, V., Sandhya, K. M., Karnatak, G., Kumari, S., Bera, A.
K., Das, S., Ali, Y. 2019. Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of fish diversity and assemblage structure vis-a-vis
environmental parameters in a tropical Indian reservoir. Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Karthikeyan, M., Mol, S. S, Paul, T. T., Ramya, V. L., Rao, D. S. K., Khan, M. F., Panda, D., Das, B. K. 2017. Status,
prospects, threats and the way forward for sustainable management and enhancement of the tropical Indian reservoir
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