{"id":231206,"date":"2023-12-22T00:25:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231206"},"modified":"2023-12-22T00:25:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T18:55:19","slug":"rare-fish-worth-rs-4-5-crore-seized-in-assams-dibrugarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/rare-fish-worth-rs-4-5-crore-seized-in-assams-dibrugarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare fish worth Rs 4.5 crore seized in Assam&#8217;s Dibrugarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dibrugarh, 21 Dec: Assam forest department officials have seized over 500 &#8216;Channa Barca&#8217; fish valued at Rs 4.5 crore from Dibrugarh airport while being smuggled to Kolkata on Thursday, a forest official said.<br \/>\nActing on a tip-off, forest personnel seized the consignment of the endangered fish locally known as &#8216;Cheng garka&#8217; and apprehended the vehicle&#8217;s driver who had brought it to the airport, divisional forest officer BV Sandeep said.<br \/>\n&#8216;Channa Barca&#8217; fish falls under the protected category, listed in Schedule 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act.<br \/>\nIt is a rare species of snakehead fish, endemic to the Upper Brahmaputra river basin in northeastern India and Bangladesh.<br \/>\nIn 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had assessed the fish as critically endangered in Bangladesh.<br \/>\nThe seized fish will be released back into the river, Sandeep added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dibrugarh, 21 Dec: Assam forest department officials have seized over 500 &#8216;Channa Barca&#8217; fish valued at Rs 4.5 crore from Dibrugarh airport while being smuggled to Kolkata on Thursday, a forest official said. Acting on a tip-off, forest personnel seized the consignment of the endangered fish locally known as &#8216;Cheng garka&#8217; and apprehended the vehicle&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231206","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=231206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}