THE MAHSEER IN THE RIVERS OF NEPAL DISRUPTED BY DAMS AND RANCHING STRATEGIES. By Tej Kumar Shrestha, D.Sc.

(ND 199?) 1997 "revised and enlarged edition". 8vo paperback (139 x 217mm). Ppxii,259. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w illustrations, maps, bibliography. Plain white card covers, with photographic dust-wrapper.

"In all the rivers of Nepal Mahseer species is getting rarified due to barrier effects of dam, channelization and habitat loss. There has been a steady increase in the fishing pressure on mahseer streams - from developers of all kinds, road builders and dam builders, who insist on straightening stream channels, from pump-storage projects, increasing numbers of mahseer fishermen, farmers. The ever-present threats of pollution, clear-cutting, stone or gravel mining, imprudent stocking of carp and that gradual and ineluctable cancer that we call progress". Contents include: Part I - Ecology of the mahseer, habitat ecology, migration and life history, rehabilitation, conservation, management and ranching. Part II - Morphology of the mahseer, structural and functional aspects of the mahseer and bio mechanics.