Fish Distribution and Composition of Kelantan River Systems, Kelantan, Malaysia

Abstract

Fish from three major rivers namely Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan, and Galas rivers in Kelantan, Malaysia was caught using gill-nets with separate mesh sizes of 1, 2, 3, and 4 inches, respectively. There were 170 fish collected from the PCR systems, which represented 18 families and 21 species (2008-2009). The most common fishes, based on total fish captured, were Ikan duri (Arius maculatus) and Puyu (Anabas testudineus). A total of 245 individual fish were collected from KR (2010-2012) which comprised of 7 families and 22 fish species with the highest number of individual fish (51) collected during this survey was the spotted catfish (Arius maculatus). A total of 562 fish specimens representing 12 families and 32 species were captured from riverine monitoring in the GR systems (2008-2010).

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