Imagine it's the winter of 1960 and you are having morning cup of tea in the small resthouse of Tangrot near the confluence of the River Jhelum and the Poonch. You arrived late in the evening and the ...

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) A mix of on-field strategies and policy decisions, a species atlas as a single reference point for information and doing away with the pseudo-conservation practice of stocking ...

The lower belt of the Teesta and the Rangeet rivers harbours a popular game fish, the Golden Mahseer, also known as the Himalayan Mahseer or Tor putitora. Immortalised in the stories of Jim Corbett ...

he wild mahseer or ikan kelah, a freshwater fish that thrives in crystal clear waters, is highly desired by anglers for its reputation as one of the most challenging fish to catch. Its delicious taste ...

“There he stood, the mahseer of the Poonch, beside whom the tarpon is a herring and he who catches him can say he is a fisherman.” — Rudyard Kipling. Anyone familiar with mahseer fishing would know ...

Well, that's the first time I've fished in the middle of a forest fire. On the last day of our mahseer-fishing trip to India's River Cauvery, we sat under the starlight and talked about the expedition ...

Paro, 3 December 2018 – With Mahseer species under increasing pressure across southern Asia, the first International Mahseer Conference will bring together regional and global experts to discuss the ...

There is a very large rock in the middle of the Cauvery river in Bangalore. It is one of the world's best places to catch a big mahseer, the "Indian salmon" for which the river is famed. But unless ...

So you tell your girlfriend that you’re going to take her angling: to the same river pool where Jim Corbett was pulled headlong into the water by a mahseer which, in his own words, “suddenly ...

Ikkiri, a Mullu Kuruma fisherman, waving to introduce his forest, river and fish.(Ramya Sriram/The Tap Stories) When Dencin Rons Thampy, an independent field researcher working with Mahseer Trust, a ...

“There he stood, the mahseer of the Poonch, beside whom the tarpon is a herring and he who catches him can say he is a fisherman.” — Rudyard Kipling. Anyone familiar with mahseer fishing would know ...