The season’s first fish farming at the Vellore’s Fort moat began with the release of 30,000 fishes, mainly Catla and Roya varieties, into the waterbody. Along with local fishermen, officials ...

Four varieties of fishes – ‘catla’, ‘rohu’, ‘mrigal’ and ‘’common carp’ are hatched here. While the first three varieties could be hatched between July and September ...

Among the river fish, catla was in great demand. Tiger prawn and pompfret also found many takers. Chandra HS, assistant manager of the corporation, said: “We laid nets and managed to catch 600 ...

but researchers at the indian institute of chemical biology (iicb) in kolkata have found "copious release of insulin" in an indian fish--"catla catla" that has no pancreas or islet cells.

During the Bangla months of Baishakh and Jaishtha (April and May) every year, different species of mother fish, like Catla (Catla catla), Ruhi (Labeo rohita), Mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) and Kalbaoush ...