Fish fauna of Meureubo River, Aceh Barat District, Indonesia

Meureubo river is one of river area that has not been studies for it fishery potential source. While it has been overtime used to fulfill the daily need of the community living around it. However that various activities can potential lead to the damage of river ecology that impact to decrease the functions of ecology and the water biota diversity specifically fish. The objective of the present study was to inventory the fish fauna of the Meurebo River, Aceh Barat District, Indonesia. The study was conducted for three months from April to June 2016 at 10 sampling stations along the river and river branches. The fish was caught using various fishing equipment, namely gillnet, casting net, trap, and scope net. The fish samples were transported to the Laboratory of Zoology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for taxonomic identification. A total of 163 individual of fishes were recorded during the sampling, its belong to 7 orders, 21 families and 32 species. Cyprinidae and Carangidae are predominant in Meurebo River, where Cyprinidae inhibit middle and upstream, while Carangidae inhibits downstream. Two species, Osteochilus kappenii dan Ambassis vachellii were widely distributed. Osteochilus kappenii was recorded in almost sampling station except in station V. Similarly, while A. vachellii was also recorded in almost sampling station except in station II and station IV. In addition, two species of introduced fish were recorded, namely; Oreochromis niloticus dan Trichogaster pectoralis.