Fish faunal diversity of hooghly river near diamond harbor

Abstract

In today’s scenario fish diversity is an important factor for nutrition of human life. Protein source coverage by most of the Bengali’s is through fish consumption in daily diet. Even in all leading hospitals & hotels fish requirement per day is unthinkable. River Hooghly is very rich in fish faunal diversity. Almost 260 varieties of fish species and 20 families and 7 orders are available in Diamond harbor. For 7 orders important orders are: Cypriniformes, Perciformes, Osteoglossiformes, Siluriformes etc. Even commercially important shell fish variety has export quality production in that zone. (Tarun Kumar Singh et al. 2014).