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The Fisheries and Fishermen’s Welfare Department has completed the merchandise of 11.20 lakh fingerlings in rivers, lakes, and ponds crossed the district.
The inaugural is portion of a State-level stream fish-stocking task aimed astatine enhancing food resources successful the State. As portion of the project, fingerlings were released successful the Bhavani and Cauvery rivers, arsenic good arsenic successful respective lakes and ponds. Initially, the section planned to stock 50,000 fingerlings each in Rivers Bhavani and Cauvery. During the archetypal signifier successful November past year, 20,000 fingerlings were released adjacent the Appakudal–Kavundapadi bridge area of the Bhavani River and another 20,000 near the Kooduthurai stretch of River Cauvery.
Officials said the merchandise of five lakh fingerlings each in some rivers has present been completed. In addition, 1.20 lakh fingerlings have been released successful lakes and ponds crossed the district. Native food taxon specified as Sail Carp and Rohu were released pursuing surveys conducted successful h2o bodies with h2o availability for much than 10 months.
Based connected the survey, fingerlings were released astatine around 100 locations. Officials said the task would assistance conserve autochthonal food species, summation the availability of low-cost protein-rich food, amended livelihoods, forestall situation degradation, and enactment ecological balance.
