~ 84 ~ International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies 2018; 5(6): 84-86 ISSN 2347-2677 IJFBS 2018; 5(6): 84-86 Received: 04-09-2018 Accepted: 06-10-2018 Paramveer Singh Aquaculture Consultant, Mohali, Punjab, India Mukta Singh Department of Aquatic Health & Environment, College of fisheries, CAU, Lembucherra, Tripura, India S Harihara Sudhan Department of Zoology and Fishery sciences, Dolphin PG College of Science and Agriculture, Chunni Kalan, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab India Gohil Kaushik bharatbhai Department of Zoology and Fishery sciences, Dolphin PG College of Science and Agriculture, Chunni Kalan, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab India Correspondence Paramveer Singh Aquaculture Consultant, Mohali, Punjab, India Comparative study of sport fishing and water quality parameters between Siswan dam and Sukhna Lake Paramveer Singh, Mukta Singh, S Harihara Sudhan and Gohil Kaushik Bharatbhai Abstract Siswan Dam and Sukhna Lake both are manmade water bodies situated in the range of Shivalik Hills at different geographical area like Village Siswan, S.A.S Nagar Punjab and north east region of Chandigarh respectively. We analysed distinct water quality sample from Siswan Dam and Sukhna Lake during October and November 2018 (Morning, Afternoon and evening). Besides this, Sukhna Lake is very popular place for tourism as compare to Siswan Dam. Sukhna Lake is famous for recreational activities like boating, sightseeing, food plaza, traditional boat race, canoe polo, canoe marathon and sport fishing also. On the other side, Siswan Dam has less tourism and mostly voyagers visit over there during their journey to Shimla. Dam comes under irrigation department of Punjab and lake comes under Department of Animal husbandry and Fisheries Sector Chandigarh UT and Forest Department respectively. On the other hand, Lake also declared as a national wetland of India and Department of Animal husbandry and Fisheries Sector Chandigarh UT also providing daily fishing licenses on different terms and conditions like for angling activity @ 40 rupee daily, 300 rupee for 10 days and 800 rupee for one month but there is no sport fishing and boating club at Dam except a Café Black Hole Siswan is situated in front of the entrance of Dam from Road side. During water sampling we assessed different water quality parameters like D.O, pH, Air Temperature, water temperature, alkalinity and water color from both sites. There was huge difference between water quality of Siswan dam and Sukhna Lake. We observed that Sukhna Lake water pH 8.4 was alkaline as compare to Siswan Dam pH 7.7 and not only pH there was huge difference in other water quality parameters also like water color and D.O respectively. With respect to these Situations Lake has a great scope of fisheries and sport fishing as compare to Dam. Keywords: Siswan dam, Sukhna Lake, spot fishing and water quality parameters. 1. Introduction The aquatic ecosystem has distinct kind of components like water quality and biological diversity of aquatic animals and aquatic flora respectively. Physicochemical parameters of water play a significant role in the biology and physiology of fish. India has near about 3.15 million ha reservoir area [4] . Most number of reservoirs present in Maharashtra state of India. Nowadays Quality of theses water bodies has immense role in fisheries and aqua tourism throughout the India. Besides this, lakes has not only very productive role in fisheries sector but lakes also has good aqua tourism industry and sport fishing in the upper range of north India at Himalaya region like Bhimtal lake Uttarakhand, Sukhna lake Chandigarh, Dal lake Srinagar and Wular lake respectively. On the other hand, In India from last 70 years number of stagnant water bodies has constructed under irrigation department of India like Siswan Dam and Sukhna Lake at Punjab and Chandigarh respectively. Siswan Dam in Punjab region comes under irrigation water quality system constructed during 1998 at S.A.S Nagar on Siswan Khad River respectively [2] . Siswan dam has a 435 meter length with 950 ha culturable command area (CCA) respectively [2] . Dam has maximum height above foundation is 24 meter and water depth in winter season is 15- 25 feet and total water capacity is near about total volume count of dam is 417 respectively. Dam comes under lease for five years via irrigation department of Punjab for fish culture use only. On the other hand, Sukhna Lake constructed during 1958 on Sukhna Choe at the foot hills of Shivalik hills in Chandigarh [6] . Main water source is seasonal streaming from hilly region during monsoon season. Lake has total 3 km square area and average depth is near about 2.4 meter throughout the year and maximum depth during monsoon season is 4.9-5.1 meter respectively. In Chandigarh Sukhna lake is main source of fisheries and Fisheries Department Fish-seed Farm just off Sukhna Lake produces 6.5 lakh fish seed annually. These fish are stocked in Sukhna Lake, and in village ponds and