Contents: Preface. 1. Bioresources vs livelihood: Indian scenario/B.N. Pandey, deepak Kumar, P.N. Pandey and Kamal Jaiswal. 2. Freshwater biodiversity in the Mahanadi basin Chhattisgarh/H.K. Vardia. 3. Ichthyofaunal diversity of Kulsi river: prime habitat of Dolphin/Chandasudha Goswami and Sayed Ali. 4. Ichthyofaunal diversity of river Chambal in Madhya Pradesh/Ridhi, B.C. Jha, A. Parashar, A.K. Das and A.K. Bose.  5. First ever record of a fish Nanga Assamensis pisces: Siluriformers: Sisoridae from Arunachal Pradesh, India: a biodiversity hot spot/Keshav Kumar Jha, Onang Tamuk and Tapan Kumar Ghosh.  6. Documentation of fish diversity in the upper stretch of river Tawa, Madhya Pradesh, India/A.K. Bose, B.C. Jha, V.R. Suresh, A.K. Das and A. Parashar Ridhi. 7. Some parasitic nematodes and trematodes found in few common catfishes of Manipur Valley/R.K. Gambhir, Zenith, Ng. Th. Tarnita and W. Lakshmipyari. 8. Helminth parasites in the air breathing fishes of Karbhala Wetland Silchar, Assam/Kh. Binky, M. Shomorendra and Devashish Kar. 9. Fish diversity of Salchapra Wetland in Cachar district of Assam/Monjurul Hoque Barbhuiya, M.M. Goswami and Devasish Kar. 10. Diversity and abundance of macrozoobenthos in Chilika lagoon/Suman Mishra, Anita Chakraborty, A.K. Das and B.C. Jha. 11. A study on diversity and distribution of scleractinian corals in middle Andaman, India/Koushik Sadhukhan and C. Raghunathan. 12. Study of zooplankton and aquatic organisms from domestic waste water from Medad Tal, Baramati, Pune, Maharashtra and its socio-economic importance/Sadhana Deshpande, Jyoti Kulkarni, and Tanaj Kashid. 13. Seri-biodiversity conservation and its utilisation for economic sustainability of farmers/Afifa S. Kamili. 14. Seri-biodiversity conservation in Indian with relation to human welfare/A.K. Srivastava, P.K. Kar, M.K. Sinha and B.C. Prasad. 15. Biodiversity of Eri silkworms, host plants strategy for exploitation of available castor foliage in Uttar Pradehs/A.A. Siddiqui and H.C. Mani. 16. Biodiversity of order Odonata from Medad Village and its socio-economic importance/Jyoti Kulkarni, Ravindra Gaikwad and Kanchan Wagh. 17. Biodiversity of macrobenthic fauna in beel ecosystems of West Bengal and Assam/Anita Chakraborty, B.C. Jha and R.K. Bhakat.