Ichthyofauna in coal mining area of Mifa Bersaudara Company, Aceh Barat District, Indonesia

Abstract

Mifa Bersaudara Company (PT. Mifa Bersaudara) is one of the mining company operated in Aceh Barat District, Indonesia. Several small rivers and peat swamps are present in the concession area of the company. These waters have potency on fisheries; However, presently, there was no data on the ichthyofauna in the concession area of this company. Hence, the objective of the present study was to inventory the ichthyofauna in the small rivers and swamps around the concession area of PT. Mifa Bersaudara as a baseline data for monitoring program in the future. The sampling was done from 28 to 29 January 2019 at 12 sampling sites. The fish sample was caught using the casting net and fish trap from 06.00 AM to 5.00 PM. A total of 659 individual of fishes were sampled during the survey, it belongs to 7 orders, 11 families, 17 genera and 23 species. Cyprinidae and Rasbora argyrotaenia are the predominant family and species, respectively. One species of alien fish Oreochromis niloticus was recorded during the study.

Diversity of marine fish and their conservation status in Pusong Bay, Lhokseumawe City, Aceh Province, Indonesia

“…The 71 species of fish collected in Pusong Bay, Lhokseumawe City (Table 2) belonged to 15 orders, which is higher than that recorded in other areas in Aceh Province, such as Simeulue Island (12 orders) (Batubara et al 2017;Batubara et al 2018), Meurebo River (7 orders) and Mifa Bersaudara Inc. Area (7 orders) in the West Aceh Regency (Irhami et al 2018;Nur et al 2019b), Aceh River (12 orders) in the Aceh Province (Dekar et al 2018), Sabee River in the Aceh Jaya Regency (Timorya et al 2018) and Lhoknga and Lhok Mata Ie Coast (8 orders) in the Aceh Besar Regency (Nur et al 2019a). Thus based on the number of orders of fish, there is a higher diversity fish in the bay than in the river and coastal waters in Aceh Province.…”

“…The same order of fish dominates in other areas such as Simeulue Island (67 species) (Batubara et al 2017) and Aceh River (20 species) (Dekar et al 2018). However, the order Cypriniformes dominates in area such as Rawa Teripa waters in Nagan Raya Regency (19% of all species caught) (Muchlisin et al 2015), Mifa Bersaudara Inc. Area (39%) (Nur et al 2019b) and Meureubo River in West Aceh Regency (12.5%) (Irhami et al 2018).…”

“…There are inventories of the species of fish for several areas in Aceh, such as Aceh Besar Regency (Rizwan et al 2017;Dekar et al 2018;Dewiyanti et al 2019;Nur et al 2019a), Banda Aceh (Muchlisin et al 2017a;Fadli et al 2018;Perdana et al 2018), Sabang (Rudi et al 2009;Rudi et al 2012), Pidie (Nasir et al 2018), Central Aceh (Muchlisin et al 2013) and South-West Aceh (Muchlisin et al 2015;Batubara et al 2017;Muchlisin et al 2017b;Batubara et al 2018;Irhami et al 2018;Timorya et al 2018;Nur et al 2019b), but not for Pusong Bay, Lhokseumawe. Therefore, the aim of this study is to collect data that will be important for the management of fisheries and conservation of endangered species of fish in the future.…”

Application of avian pituitary gland extracts in semi artificial induced breeding of climbing perch Anabas testudineus

“…Climbing perch Anabas testudineus is one the most popular and has important economic value in Indonesia and Southeast Asian countries [1][2][3]. This fish is distributed in almost all parts of Indonesia, such as Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan [4][5][6][7] including in Aceh [3,[8][9][10][11][12]. Climbing perch fish farming has been initiated in several areas in Indonesia, including in Java, Kalimantan, and Sumatra [13,14].…”