Fish stupefying plants used by the Gond tribal of Mendha village of Central India

Kamalkishor, Heda Nilesh and Kulkarni, KM (2009) Fish stupefying plants used by the Gond tribal of Mendha village of Central India. In: Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 8 (4). pp. 531-534.

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Abstract

Fish stupefying plants and their methods of use by the Gond people of Mendha village of the Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra state have been documented. For the purpose of validation, literature survey revels that many fish stupefying plants being used since long time by local people are recently well tested by many workers and are found to have many important medicinal properties. It was also observed that herbal fish stupefying agents are excellent means of fishing, which do not kill whole fish stock like chemicals.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
Publisher:	Natl inst science communication
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Natl inst science communication.
Keywords:	Fishing stupefying techniques; Gond; Dhivar; Fish stupefying plants; Fish poisons
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2010 10:26
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:56
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26020

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