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Kashmir’s Trout Fishery in Troubled Waters Ignoring local environmental regulations, the Indian government has approved a spate of gravel- and boulder-mining projects in the valley’s streams. Riyaz Wani
February 11, 2021
Naristan is a 49 kilometer-long, meandering snow-fed trout stream in the Indian administered part of Kashmir Valley. In April last year, the regional government approved a gravel and boulder-mining project on 2.69 hectare block of the stream that is a critical part of the local trout habitat.
Naristan isn’t the only stream in the Kashmir Valley being threatened by development and extraction activities. Other major trout streams in the valley, like Lidder, Bringhi, and Arin, where such mining projects have been approved as well, face similar fates. This threatens the survival of the valley’s thriving trout fishery that relies heavily on fish that were brought to Kashmir over a century ago from Scotland by the then-ruler Maharaja Hari Singh.