Abstract
The North Eastern Sates including Assam are very rich in aquatic bio-resources and dominated by several endemic fish resources. The study was conducted from June 2018- July 2019 in two different fish assembling villages viz. Chamaguri (W) and Garokuta (North) of Urpad Beel and fish species were recorded along with their IUCN Conservation status. Alto-gether, 31 ornamental fish species belonging to 16 Genera, 15 Families, and 6 Orders be-longing to orders like Beloniformes, Cypriniformes, Osteoglossiformes, Siluriformes, Sym-branchiformes, Perciformes, Tetradontiformes were recorded. Out of the recorded fish spe-cies, Lepidocephalichthys guntea (Hamilton-Buchanan,1822), Channa gachua (Hamilton, 1822) and Chanda nama (Hamilton, 1822) were assessed as NE, Botia rostrata (Gun-ther,1868) and Channa gachua (Hamilton, 1822), Mystus vittatus ( Bloch, 1794) as VU, Ctenops nobilis (Mc Clelland, 1845) as NT as per IUCN Status 2013. The ornamental fishes are found in the weed assemblage of the Beel including Eichhornia crassipes, Hydrilla verticillate and Ceratophyllum demersum .
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