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- noun An
endangered large-scaledcarp of the familyCyprinidae , found in rivers and lakes of India, Malaysia, and Southern Asia generally, valued as a game fish.
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Examples
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Last spring, F&S field editor Keith McCafferty ventured to India to follow the trails of the legendary hunter Jim Corbett, see tigers, and fish for mahseer (right).
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Finally, my dream expanded to include fishing for India's great migratory gamefish, the golden mahseer.
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Fishing for mahseer in the Himalayas doesn't begin with a cast.
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Rough Fish keith mccafferty's adventure in india's mountain country fishing the rivers for mahseer and exploring the native populations and seeing tigers.
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It has a gold illustration on the cover of a man with a turban and a human- sized mahseer hanging beside him, and a chapter called “Circumventing the Mahseer”.
Fish wish list 2009
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A newer good book is Somewhere Down the Crazy River by Paul Boote and Jeremy WAde– two crazed Brit fishers on expeditions after mahseer and giant tigerfish in Africa of course.
Fish wish list 2009
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The fabled mahseer of India's mountain rivers, one of the world's hardest-fighting gamefish, is a carp.
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Shoals of silvery mahseer, no bigger than sardines, came nosing and nibbling at his body.
Burmese Days 2002
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In India at least one member of the family, the mahseer, takes rank with the salmon as a
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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-- Among the carps of India, several of which give good sport, special mention must be made of the mahseer (_Barbus mosal_),
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
hernesheir commented on the word mahseer
It's a fish.
Unofficially, the national fish of Pakistan. British anglers in India called them the Indian salmon.
January 2, 2012