Dr. V. V. R. Suresh
Role : Principal Scientist & Head, Mariculture Division
04842391818
vettath.suresh@icar.gov.in
Focus of Research :
- Mariculture and Species Conservation
- Invasive Species Risk Assessment
- Open Water Fisheries Management
Background :
With over twenty-eight years working in open water fisheries management and aquaculture research, my background spans pond, cage, and pen-based fish culture systems, fish breeding, fish feeds and nutrition, fish migration, fish germplasm exploration and conservation, fish stock assessment, invasive species risk assessment, and environment impact assessment. Attracted project grants of over 20 crores. Currently, as Head of the Mariculture Division, leading projects in breeding and seed production of fishes and invertebrates, including AI applications in mariculture.
Education :
- Doctoral, 1992 (Marine Science, Mariculture)
- Masters, 1987 (Fish and Fisheries)
- Graduation, 1985 (Zoology)
Current Research Projects :
Project | Funding |
Computer vision-based monitoring of fishes in marine cage farming | iHub Drishti Foundation, IIT, Jodhpur, Rajasthan |
Development of hatchery technologies for commercially important species in mariculture. | CMFRI in-house Project |
Captive breeding and seed production of important finfishes, shellfishes and other invertebrates for sustainable mariculture, fisheries enhancement, and conservation | CMFRI in-house project |
Publications:
- Suresh, V. R., Sandhya, K. M., Sajina, A. M., Manna, R. K., Mukherjee, J., Banik, S. K., Maity, T., Samanta, R., Raman, R. K., Jayaraman, J., Behera, B. K. 2021. Reproductive potential and stock status of the anadromous shad, Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822): Implications for managing its declining fisheries in northern Bay of Bengal bordering India. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 44 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101753
- Suresh Vettath Raghavan, Eldho Varghese, Aliyamintakath M. Sajina, Subodha Kumar Karna, Surya K. Mohanty, Pradeep K. Sethi, Manasi Mukherjee, Surajit K. Banik, Jayasankar Jayaraman, Manas H. Munivenkatappa, Jayanta Mukherjee, Ranjan K. Manna, Debabrata Panda. 2022. Assessment of data-limited fisheries: A case study of three finfish species in Chilika lagoon, India. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 00:1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12611
- Damodaran Nair Divu, Suresh Kumar Mojjada, Gyanaranjan Dash, Swathi Lekshmi Perumal Sundaram, Muktha Menon, Mayur Shivdas Tade, Ramesh Kumar Mojjada, Hiralal Mepabhai Bhint, Jaishree Bhardwaj, Aarsha Subramanian, Vettath Raghavan Suresh, Achamveetil Gopalakrishnan. 2023. A novel decision-support system for augmenting sustainable lobster production through comparison of mariculture systems at increasing stages of technological development. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 401, 136759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136759.
- Lorenzo Vilizzi, Gordon H. Copp, Jeffrey E. Hill, ……… Vettath R. Suresh, …….. and others. 2021 (90 authors). A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions. Science of the Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147868.
- De, D., S. Mukherjee, P. S. Shyne Anand, P. Kumar, V. R. Suresh and K. K. Vijayan. 2019. Nutritional profiling of hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha) of different size groups and sensory evaluation of their adults from different riverine systems. Scientific Reports, 9: 19306. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55845-w.
