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Indian major carps

Catla, rohu and mrigal, the three native river carps that are the backbone of fish farming in India and Bangladesh.

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The Indian major carps are three large carps of the rivers of the Indian subcontinent: catla, rohu and mrigal. Each feeds at a different depth: catla near the surface, rohu in the middle and mrigal near the bottom. They grow fast, eat plankton and plant matter, and are much loved as food in eastern India and Bangladesh, where rohu in particular is central to Bengali cooking and ceremony. Kalbasu is sometimes counted as a fourth. Together they account for a large share of India's farmed fish.

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