An alternative to dolphin oil as a fish attractant in the Ganges River system: Conservation of the Ganges River dolphin

Biological Conservation

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 253-257

  Sinha, R K ^a  

^a PATNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Dolphin conservation; Fish oil; Ganges River dolphin; Platanista gangetica

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DOLPHIN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERY; OIL;

INDIA;

CORYPHAENIDAE; PLATANISTA; PLATANISTA GANGETICA;

EID: 0036282535     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00058-7     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Oil bait fishery of catfishes in Brahmaputra River affecting river dolphin populations in Assam, India
2. Blind river dolphins: First side-swimming cetacean
3. Fish oils as alternative to river dolphin, Platanista gangetica (Lebeck) oil for fishing catfish Clupisoma garua in the River Ganges, India
4. A special method of fishing for Clupisoma garua (Hamilton) in the Ganges River system
5. The distribution of fright reaction and alarm substance cells in fishes
6. River dolphins in Bangladesh: Conservation and the effects of water developments