author(s)
Ratnakar Mishra, Paramveer Singh and Mukta Singh

abstract
This 60 days experiment was conducted to analyse the Growth Performance of Catla catla (Hamilton, 1822) in Earthen Pond with the help of Commercial and Traditional Feed like; commercial available floating feed (FF), Rice Bran (RB) and Mustard Oil Cake (MOC) respectively. The present study was carried out under wild earthen pond with productive black soil at Simradi Village in Umaria district Madhya Pradesh India and the area of pond was 8000 sq. Feet (100 x 80 x 2.50 ft.) and divided into two equal half’s with the help of net like; Pond A and B respectively. We collected fry of Catla catla from Government fisheries production unit Umaria District (MP) for this experiment. Besides this, stocking density was 800 fry in each pond A and B respectively. Throughout the experiment two distinct kinds of feed stuffs like; traditional ingredient (TF) with (Rice+ MOC) or (1:1) in Pond A and Commercial available floating feed (FF) with in Pond B used as diet respectively. Firstly, the experiment was initiated with mean initial length 2.6 cm and weight 0.35 g of catla fry in both experimental ponds. Randomly we analysed length and weight near about three times throughout the whole experiment. At last day of the experiment we observed a productive growth performance with commercial available floating feed (FF) as compare to traditional ingredient (TF) with (RB+ MOC) in all prospectives like; Survivability rate 77.5%, mean final length 18 cm & weight 25 gm and specific growth rate (SGR) 0.63 except feed conversion ratio (FCR) 0.951 respectively. All in all with commercial feed has a productive result as compare to traditional feed respectively. This experiment will give thrust to the fish farmers.