This document summarizes a fish market survey conducted in Machli Mandi, Alambagh, Lucknow, India. During the 9-month study period, 83 fish species from 8 orders, 21 families, and 58 genera were identified in various water bodies and fish markets in Lucknow. The dominant order identified was Cypriniformes, representing 68% of species. Materials and methods described how local fishermen were used to catch fish using various nets and hooks, which were then identified based on taxonomic keys. The results showed that Lucknow has extensive freshwater fisheries resources and biodiversity in its rivers, ponds, and irrigation canals, though proper conservation is needed to maintain this diversity.

1. Fish market Survey in Machli Mandi in Alambagh

2. Introduction
A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products. It can be dedicated to wholesale trade
between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both.
Retail fish markets, a type of wet market, often sell street food as well.Fish markets range in size from
small fish stalls to large ones such as the great Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, which turns over about
660,000 tonnes a year.The term fish market can also refer to the process of fish marketing in general, but
this article is concerned with physical marketplaces

3. Introduction to Lucknow Fish Fauna
Lucknow a capital of Uttar Pradesh has vast potential of fish faunal diversity and
offers considerable scope of inland fisheries development. Aquaculture activities
in rural for most of the fisherman area. In order to establish fish faunal diversity of
Lucknow a preliminary, data have been collected with the help of local fish farmers
and market survey. Various lentic and lotic water bodies of different locations of
the district for 9 months during 2014–2015 have been collected. During the study
period, 83 fish species belonging to 58 Genera, 21 Families and 8 Orders have
been identified. Cypriniformes was found the dominated Order with 56 species
(68%) followed by Perciformes 9 species (11%) and Clupeiformes 6 species (7%).
The present study showed that Lucknow possesses rich fish diversity but proper
conservation measures are required to maintain sustainability and richness of the
species diversity of the district.

4. Materials and Methods
Fishing was conducted with the help of local fishermen using gill nets, cast nets, trawl nets,
and dip nets containing hooks and lines (Bose et al., 2013). Samples were collected from
tanks, lakes, rivers (Gomti River), irrigation canals, and fish markets. The Gomti River is
the main river flowing from west to east, covering the entire length of the district . Once
juvenile was collected, it was placed directly into a 2-liter wide-mouth jar containing 8%
formalin solution (Bagra, 2010). Another container was used to store individual species, and
was taken to the laboratory for identification. Fresh or preserved specimens were identified
with standardized taxonomic keys for fish (Day, 1996; Talwar and Jhingran, 1991). See also
FAO Identification Sheets, Srivastava (2002), ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information
System) Standard Report (http://www.itis.gov), Fishbase (http://fishbase.org). Collected fish
were identified to the species level.

5. Results and Discussion
Lucknow has extensive freshwater fisheries resources, consisting of the Lentic and Lotik waters, which
consist exclusively of seasonal, perennial and aquaculture fisheries from ponds, which are taken from
rivers, nura and irrigation canals. The current biodiversity of river fish is primarily derived from natural
breeding or escape from numerous bodies of water within the Area. During the survey periods, a
diversity of fish faunas was established, of which 83 fish species belonged to 58 genera, 21 families and
8 orders (Table 1). After morphometric and meristic analysis of all found specimens, Cyprinformes (56
species) contributed the most compared to Perciformes (9 species) and Crupeiformes (6 species) .
Ophiocephaliformes contained 5,444 species, Mastacembeleformes shared 3, species, Mugiliformes
shared 2 species, and Beloniformes and Tetraodontiformes shared 1 species. The dominant order was
Cyprinidae (minnows and carp), accounting for 68% of all recorded species. The dominant orders other
than Cyprinids are Perciformes, Crupeiformes and Ocernocephales, accounting for 11%, 7% and 6% of
the recorded species, respectively (Fig. 1). All other eyes such as Mastacemleleformes Division 4%,
Mugiliformes, Beloniformes, Tetraodontiformes, 2%, 1% and 1% contribute to . The dominant family is
Cyprinidae withspecies, accounting for 42% of the total species (Fig. 2)

6. Fig. 1 Diagrammatic representation of
per cent contribution in each order.
Fig. 2 Diagrammatic representation of
the per cent contribution in each Family

7. Table 1 Fish diversity of Lucknow district (Uttar Pradesh)