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- DEDICATION
- DECLARATION
- CERTIFICATE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- ABSTRACT
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF FIGURES
- I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- Review of Literature
- Study of lndian fish fauna
- Studies on the freshwater fish fauna of Kerala
- II. DESCRlPTlON OF THE LAKE
- STUDY SITES
- Station-I (Vallakadavu)
- Station-II (Near Market)
- Station-III (Near Concrete Bund)
- Station-IV (Near Filter House)
- Station-V (Rajagiri Side)
- Fig. 2.1 Map Sasthamkotta Kayal
- Plate I SI Vallakadavu
- Plate I S II MARKET (NORTH-WEST SIDE OF BB COLLEGE)
- Plate I SIII NEAR CONCRETE BUND
- Plate I S IV NEAR FILTER HOUSE
- Plate I S V NEAR RAJAGIRI
- III-1. HYDROGRAPHY
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- CORRELATION
- DISCUSSION
- III-2. MICROBIOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- IV. SEDIMENTOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- V-1. PLANKTON
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- V-2. PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- VI. ABUNDANCE AND DYNAMICS OF FISH FAUNA
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- Encircling Net
- Gill Net
- Cast net
- PLATE ll Encircling Net operation
- PLATE ll Gill Net operation
- PLATE ll Cast net operation
- RESULTS
- Temporal variation in the species composition using all the nets
- Abundance of fish fauna
- Monthly and seasonal variations in fish abundance
- Spatial and temporal variation of species composition
- Net wise fish abundance
- PLATE Ill
- PLATE lV
- PLATE V
- DISCUSSION
- VII. PISCINE DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- DISCUSSION
- VIII. FISHERY POTENTIAL OF SASTHAMKOTTA LAKE
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODOLOGY
- RESULTS
- Cast net Fishery
- Gillnet Fishery
- Encircling Net Fishery
- DISCUSSION
- IX. SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE LAKE
- PROBLEMS THE LAKE FACES
- CONSERVATION STRATEGIES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX