Chasing Mahseer Dreams, By Haider Ashraf

A Personal Quest into India’s Fishing Paradise After decades of waiting, I finally got to experience the fishing I always wanted, castingcontinuously on the river for hours and hours, unaware whether the fish was in the moodfor a snack. Last October, I went to Marchula, a village on the outskirts of CorbettNational Park. My dad

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The Moyar Adventure

A journey to the heart of the wild river By Sandeep Chakrabarti The search for the critically endangered orange fin/humpback mahseer (Tor remadevii) had just begun. WASI had planned a recce to the Moyar River in South India. Dr. A. J. T.  Johnsingh was our lead scientist with the relevant contacts in the concerned government