3rd World Aquaculture and Marine Biology Congress

T. Vaitheeswaran

T. Vaitheeswaran

Doctor
DMI St. John the Baptist University
Malawi

Biography

I am Dr Vaitheeswaran Thiruvengadam (DoB: 03-06-1969), M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D., (Zoology/Fisheries Science), Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India. He holds over 24 years of fisheries resource management and taxonomy, and he has received and awarded (Ph.D) Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Award (AUS $ 73,200), Doctor of Philosophy, School of Aquaculture, University of Tasmania, Australia. He has served as Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Government Institution of India, Uganda and Malawi. He got fisheries experience with 24 years in fisheries biology and resource management and seventeen project was handled with wild extension field work and form management and scientific community and commercial species of tilapia, pangasis, catla, rohu, mirgal, brackishwater species Etroplus, seabass, milk fish, mullets, marine species viz, spiny lobster species, crab, shrimp and prawn, biofloc technology, marine ornamental fish and fisheries, with hatchery and culture, feed management, juvenile, cage culture with Victoria Lake at Uganda, and culture of various species, species like finfish and shellfish groups. All male Tilapia Hatchery Technical guideline and Head: Breeding, seed production and culture of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), Victoria Treasures Limited, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa. He has a penchant desire and devotion to Teaching and Research work in the field of fisheries science. He has good experience in handling the classes on the Taxonomy of finfish and shellfish and advances in fisheries biology and physiology to the under and postgraduate students He also one of the Planery and Renowned Speakers and an Oranising Committee Member of various an International Conference on Aquaculture and Fisheries, held at Ireland, South Korea, Malaysia, The Netherlands and Czeck Republic. Dr. Vaitheeswaran Thiruvengadam has over 96 substantial publications, including 34 papers in international peer-reviewed publications, 8 international conference papers, Renowned Speakers of International conference at Australia, 32 National peer-reviewed papers, 13 co-edited book, monographs, and training manual, 3 reviewed chapters, 201 external reports in English and Tamil newspaper reports and Renowned Speakers of International conference at Australia. He has new record of finfish and shellfish species of marine invertebrate species of 68 numbers were reported for the first time in Indian coast, Indo-West Pacific coast of Gulf of Mannar, India. He has been updated for the squat lobster taxonomy, biology upto 51 species were reported for the FIRST TIME in Indo-Pacific region and as well as Indian Ocean. I am assisted in the taxonomic description of a new species of cuttle-fish Sepia ramani and Sepia prabahari for the first time from world waters.


Research Interest

Fisheries stock assessment of (FiSAT software) finfishes and shellfishes and Biodiversity assessment of (Primer v 6 software) and taxonomy of crustaceans viz., prawn, shrimp, spiny lobster, squat lobster and crab.

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