Mighty fish

I was at bhedaghat, Jabalpur , Here mighty Narmada river, makes her way cutting through the marble rocks over the rocks making a powerful roar and smoke . Water falling from a height of 150 ft generates great noise with water sprinkles. It looks like a white smoke or fog. Hence the name Dhuandhar (Smoky) Fall.

There were several small pools just few centimeters deep were formed by water. I noticed some movement in one of such pool, It was a small fish (Around 15 cm) belong to genus Channa striatus  . This is amazingly brave fish It was reached there climbing Dhuadhar and may be tall walls of one or many dams on Narmada. Biology of channa is not well studied as compare to its distance relative salmon.Fish like this have developed habit of flowing against rapids of shallow and fast flowing rivers through the course of millions of years of evolution and now fighting for survival against large dams.

 There were several small pools just few centimeters deep were formed by water. I noticed some movement in one of such pool, It was a small fish (Around 15 cm) belong to genus Channa striatus  . This is amazingly brave fish It was reached their climbing Dhuadhar and may be tall walls of one or many dams on Narmada. Fish like this have developed habit of flowing against rapids of shallow and fast flowing rivers through the course of millions of years of evolution and now fighting for survival against large dams.