World's most iconic freshwater Indian fish on the brink of extinction: study

The legendary humpback Mahseer, one of the world's most iconic freshwater fish, is on the brink of extinction, researchers, including those from India, have warned.Ever since the publication of HS Thomas's A Rod in India in 1873, this giant member of the carp family has been known to anglers around the globe as 'one of the largest and hardest fighting freshwater fish in the world'.With its distribution having always been limited to South India's Cauvery River basin, this fish is now believed to be so endangered it may be extinct in the wild within a generation, researchers said.