{"id":29190,"date":"2025-01-05T06:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29190"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:41:46","slug":"black-collared-yellow-catfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-collared-yellow-catfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-Collared Yellow Catfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Black-collared yellow catfish:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is endemic to the <strong>Chalakudy river in Kerala.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is characterized by its greenish-brown mottled coloration, shorter barbels, and distinct genetic traits, the <strong>species coexists<\/strong> with the <strong>endangered Horabagrus Nigricollaris.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been <strong>classified as endangered<\/strong> in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.<\/li>\n<li>The captive breeding programme of the fish began in 2020, and the first generation stock was successfully bred by the researchers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of captive breeding:<\/strong> The development of the breeding technique will help in the conservation of the species. The development of the protocol would ensure the <strong>preservation of biodiversity in the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about the National Bureau for Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in December 1983 in Allahabad under the aegis of <strong>Indian Council of Agricultural Research<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It aims to undertake research related to the <strong>conservation of fish germplasm resources<\/strong> of the country.<\/li>\n<li>The Institute&#8217;s vision is assessment and conservation of fish genetic resources for intellectual property protection, sustainable utilization and posterity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Aquaculture?<\/h3>\n<p>It broadly refers to the cultivation of aquatic organisms in controlled aquatic environments for any commercial, recreational or public purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/researchers-develop-captive-breeding-protocol-for-endangered-catfish\/article69058830.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers develop captive breeding protocol for endangered catfish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-collared yellow catfish is endemic to the Chalakudy river in Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}