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World's most iconic freshwater Indian fish on the brink of extinction: study

Iconic Indian fish on the brink of extinction: study

The paper acknowledges that many pressures are placed upon the fish of India's rivers, including pollution; poaching (using dynamite and poisons); sand and gravel extraction; low river flows due to abstraction; and India's continuing thirst for electricity, which has resulted in dozens of hydro-electric projects which restrict the ability of fish to migrate to their spawning grounds.