Potential and Opportunity for Ornamental Fishes in North Bihar

Northern part of Bihar is vastly rich in fish biodiversity and has enormous resources of water like rivers, oxbow lakes and floodplain wetlands. These aquatic resources can be utilized for  capture and culture of ornamental fish species, which will certainly empower the local agri-based economy of north Bihar. Recently, We have found many potential ornamental fishes such as barb, glassfish, gourami, featherback, zebra danio, mola carplet, gangetic leaf fish, rasbora, hatchet fish, snakehead, sand loach and eel in north Bihar which are briefly elaborated in present article. The need for conservation of the indigenous fish biodiversity is also underlined.