Fishes of Chennai explores city’s native freshwater fish, explores its cultural connection

A field guide put together by two native freshwater fish enthusiasts and released on the occasion of the Madras Day on Saturday, has documented fish found in Chennai’s waterbodies and has explored the city’s long cultural connection with fish, including their presence and importance in ancient Tamil literature.The comprehensive visual and practical field guide Fishes of Chennai by Aravind Manoj and Beta Mahatvaraj aims to make identification of fish species easier, as it groups species on the body type and habitat preference. It has profiled over 100 species and has featured about 150 photographs.“Chennai’s rivers, lakes, temple tanks, and estuaries are full of fish, and until now no single book had named them all. This one does. It’s the first field guide to the freshwater and brackish fi