Migration, Spawning Patterns and Conservation of Hilsa Shad in Bangladesh and India

Author Biography

Dewan Ali Ahsan has been involved in field research and teaching at university level since 1999. He is interested in research focussed on fisheries and aquatic resource management, environmental management and risk management. He is involved in several national and international research projects. Dr Ahsan graduated from University of Dhaka and holds a European joint Master's degree and European PhD in "Water and Coastal Management" from University of Plymouth UK, University of Bergen, Norway, University of Algarve, Portugal and University of Cadiz, Spain. Currently, he is serving as a Professor and Chairman of Department of Fisheries at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. M. Niamul Naser is Professor, Department of Fisheries, Soil, Water & Environment, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has completed his Bachelor's and Master's major in Zoology from University of Dhaka. He was awarded the prestigious Canadian Commonwealth Scholarships in 1993 for PhD from the Dallhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr Naser's extensive research skills enabled him to work with several projects inside and outside the country. Among them are Adivasi (plain & indigenous) cage culture with World Fish and BFRF; Urban Lake Pollution with BARC; Ecology of Cholera with University of Maryland, USA; Unprotected Coastal Sites of Bangladesh with Oxford University, UK. Utpal Bhaumik, PhD from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India joined Agricultural Research Service of ICAR in 1976. He has served at the Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore for more than 35 years in various capacities. He retired as the Head of Riverine Ecology and Fisheries Division of CIFRI. He actively participated in research on ecology and fisheries of rivers and estuaries of the country, especially Hilsa fisheries. He has about 200 publications in national and international journals. He was associated with different international collaborative projects of World Fish Centre, Malaysia; IUCN, India & Bangladesh, and WWF, India. Sugata Hazra, Professor of Coastal Management, and Director, School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, is involved in prediction and validation of Potential Fishing Zone in the northern Bay of Bengal, India, since 2007. He has done pioneer work relating to vulnerability and impact of climate change in Sundarbans situated in West Bengal, India. He is a member of the national task force for Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BoBLME) in India. Presently he is leading a project on ecosystem modeling, conservation and forecast of Hilsa fishery in the northern part of Bay of Bengal. Subhra Bikash Bhattacharya, Gold medalist in Marine Science from University of Calcutta, started his research career in Marine Biology with special emphasis on fisheries, aquaculture and ecology. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2003 from Jadavpur University and standardised edible oyster farming technology in Sundarbans. Presently, he is working at Kakdwip Research Centre of CIBA and is dealing with various aspects of marine fisheries and sustainable aquaculture development in Sundarbans, India. He has contributed to a number of scientific publications.