Three supplementary sinking feeds were prepared by the fish feed pellet machine from locally available feed ingredients viz. fish meal, mustered oil cake, molasses (chitagur), rice bran, soybean meal, wheat bran, Lemna minor (kutipana), blood meal and vitamin premix. In the case of prepared supplementary feeds (Bishwas floating feed), the same amount was followed. Artificial feeds were in mash or pellet form with a well-compounded mixture of