The Hindu : States / Kerala : ‘Miss Kerala’ finds spot on IUCN Red List
My childhood was closely attached to the barbs and catfish who used to swim as freely as I used to in our creeks. Even now, during my short vacations, I visit where once our creeks used to be and it is amazing to see that a few of the so-called Denisonii still survise in the remaining little drops of water my people forgot to landfill and drain!
Nice to hear that people like Ms Mercy are attempting artificial breeding of these endangered species. However, as the habitats been nearly destroyed, I wonder where on earth are you gonna leave them!
Thanks to our increasing greediness at least Keralites are worried about Miss Kerala who gives them prospects of foreign earning. But now I tell my son Emad the stories of the variety of freshwater species of my childhood.... especially when he insists to keep an illegal size or species we catch in the Pacific or in the tributaries of the Morton Bay during our fishing-frenzy school holidays. Now he knows why Australian authorities are so keen on protecting their fish.
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