ADVERSE IMPACT OF SAVAR FISHING

The adverse impacts of savar fishing for carp spawn have been summarized as: • Reducing the natural recruitment potential of carp (also to some extent, that of other species) and thereby gradually diminishing the natural stock.

• Reducing the shallow nursery and rearing areas in the river basin due to operation of savar fishing, thus negatively impacting natural productivity.
• Reducing the natural gene pool due to indiscriminate savar fishing.
• Affecting the natural productivity of carps in the wild due to mishandling of spawn fishery operations by inexperienced net operators, which may cause mass mortality of spawn.
• Negatively affecting overall capture fisheries production in the wild as a result of thousands of spawn of other fishes being damaged during the process of catching major carp spawn.