PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ON ELECTRICAL FISHING IN FRESH WATTER

Abstract

Fishing using electricity is a new
technique and is still in the experimental
stages in many of the advanced countries.
While no published records are available
in India, considerable work has been done
in Germany (Mayer Waarden, 1953, 1954a,
1954b, 1955, 1957; Hattop 1957, 1958a,
1958b; Kreutzer 1951, 1954; Denzer 1954,
1956; Ha1sband 1955, 1956), United States
(Smith 1955a, 1955b, 1955c; Halton et. a!.
1954; Lennon and Parker 1958; Wathwe
et. a/. 1964), USSR (Shentiakov 1963;
Shentiakov et. a!. 1959; Nikonorov et. a/
1959; Nikoronov Ivan 1964; Badamshin
et. a/. 1964), Canada (Smith and Sanders
1954), Newfoundland (Murray 1958),
United Kingdom (Mck-Bary 1956; Dickson
1954). These p:.tpers mainly deal with the
behaviour of the fish in the electrical field,
the physiological effects of electrical cur~
rent on fishes, methods of electrofishing,
electric fencing etc.