In this study Food and Feeding Habits of Fringe Lipped Carp, Labeo fimbriatus (Bloch) of the Vanivilas Sagar Reservoir of Karnataka have been discussed in detail. The qualitative and quantitative composition of food components from 537 male and 589 female fishes were analysed and was found that the gut content consisted approximately 46.54% of mud and sand, 20.54% of diatoms, 17.13% of decayed organic matter, 11.48% of algae, 3.32% of semi digested matter and 0.98% of miscellaneous matter. The percentage occurrence of food items in different size groups revealed that the maximum sized fishes had diatoms and semi digested matter followed by other food items. The greater percentage of fishes had stomachs with considerable food indicating active feeding during January to February. Moderate feeding was noticed during November and December and poor feeding was observed during July to August and the percentage of empty stomach increased from June to August and decreased gradually after September.
