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ROING, 25 Sep:<\/strong> A total of 20,000 fingerlings\u00a0 were released into Sally Lake here in Lower Dibang Valley district on Monday by ZPC Tony Borang during a ‘ranching programme’ organised by the fisheries department.<\/p>\n The aim is to achieve sustainable fisheries by reducing habitat degradation, conserving biodiversity, and uplifting the depleted fish stock.<\/p>\n As part of the programme, 50,000 fingerlings have been stocked in the government farm ponds.<\/p>\n District Fisheries Officer Tadar Mama informed that the department has released fingerlings into Sally Lake “to meet the required stocking density of the lake every monsoon.”<\/p>\n Expressing concern over illegal poaching of fishes in the lake, he stressed on the need to generate awareness on fish conservation.<\/p>\n Fishery Officer Neriyang Jamoh termed Sally Lake “the hotspot of mahseer” in the district, and stressed on the need to “maintain the lake and guard it against poaching.”<\/p>\n ZPC Tony Borang highlighted “the importance of such awareness programmes among the youths, in order to conserve the rich resources in terms of fishery and tourism in the district.”<\/p>\n He encouraged aquaculture practices, saying that the district has great potential in terms of pisciculture, which could improve livelihood and help tackle unemployment. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ROING, 25 Sep: A total of 20,000 fingerlings\u00a0 were released into Sally Lake here in Lower Dibang Valley district on Monday by ZPC Tony Borang during a ‘ranching programme’ organised by the fisheries department. The aim is to achieve sustainable fisheries by reducing habitat degradation, conserving biodiversity, and uplifting the depleted fish stock. As part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}