Mechanised riverbed mining is dismantling the biological processes that sustain Kashmir’s fish populations, disrupting spawning, breeding and habitat at a physiological level. Consequently, egg survival rates are plummeting, pushing several indigenous fish species like Schizothorax and Triplophysa towards extinction and endangering the region’s fish biodiversity.” “Fish population has declined by some margin over the years, but the main damage has been done to the fish catch by this unregulated mining. He took the case of Sukhnag, the Trout fish rivulet, to the NGT, and the fish massacre was one of the established outcomes of the riverbed mining. Decades of environmental negligence have thinned out local fish species, with a few disappearing from Kashmir’s waterbodies altogether.