Biodiversity of Ichthyofauna of Barul Reservoir, Nanded District, Maharashtra

The fish population of aquatic systems plays a significant role in the economy, and India has vast potential for development of Inland fisheries. Barul earthen dam is a freshwater reservoir having catchment area of 1560 hectares has been constructed on Manar river for drinking, irrigation and pisciculture purposes. Literally there is no report on the fish fauna of Barul reservoir, hence to fill the gap, present work was undertaken. The reservoir was found to have a fauna of 24 fish species belonging to 11 Families and 4 different Orders.