Focus of Research :
- Fish Taxonomy
- Fishery biology of selected demersal groups.
- Stock assessment and fisheries management
Background :
With a Masters in Mariculture and PhD in Flatfish taxonomy,I joined CMFRI in 1996 and started work on the biology and taxonomy ofdifferent groups of demersal fishes. I am currently working on groupers,snappers, rays and flatfishes as well as climate change and its effect onmarine fish in CMFRI. I have worked on the reef fish distribution alongthe Indian coasts. I also serve as the IUCN Commision Member and has therefore beeninvolved in the revalidation process. My interests include marine fish taxonomy,fishery biology stock assessment, conservation aspects, sustainability andecosystem management
Education :
- PhD 2012 Zoology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
- MSc 1993 Mariculture, Cochin University of Science and Technology
- BSc 1991 Zoology, University of Kerala
Current Research Projects :
| No | Title | Funded By |
| 1 | Development of Fishery Management Plans for sustaining Marine Fisheries of Kerala and Lakshadweep | CMFRI |
| 2 | Assessment of the elasmobranch resources in the Indian seas | CMFRI |
| 3 | Resources Assessment & Barcoding of Elasmobranchs | MoES |
| 4 | National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture | ICAR |
Awards & Recognitions :
Served as Demersal Fish Expert to the IUCNRevalidation Team for 2019 from India
· Commission Member, Species Specialist Group on Grouperand Wrasse (IUCN) for the period 2012- as on date
· Commission Member, Species Specialist Group onSnapper, Seabream & Grunt (IUCN) for the period 2017- as on date
· Won best paper in the Climate Change Session forthe paper” Distributional shift of pelagics Indian oil sardine and Indianmackeral towards Northern Indian Ocean: a climate change induced scenario?”at 2nd International Conference on Ecosystem Conservation and SustainableDevelopment (ECOCASD), 3 to 5 October 2013, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
· Secretary, Marine Biological Association of India,Kochi
· Best Research Paper in Akhil Bharatiya HindhitharBashi Vishesh Sthan.
Publications:
Best 5 Publications :
· Ben-Hasan, Abdulrahman and Sadovy deMitcheson, Yvonne J and Cisneros-Mata, Miguel A and Jimenez,Erica Antunes and Daliri, Moslem and Cisneros-Montemayor,Andr´es M and Nair, Rekha J and Sangeetha, A T and Walters,C J and Christensen, Villy (2021) China’s fish maw demand and itsimplications for fisheries in source countries. MarinePolicy. pp. 1-11.
· Nair, Rekha J and Munroe, T A and Weerts,S P (2020) Cynoglossusmacrostomus, Malabar Tonguesole. The IUCN Red List ofThreatened Species 2020. ISSN 2307-8235 (online)
· Nair, Rekha J and Mahesh, V and RatheeshKumar, R and Sangeetha, A T and Vishnupriya, K M (2022) ICAR sponsored Winter School onRecent development in taxonomic techniques of marine fishes for conservationand sustainable fisheries management: Training Manual. Manual.ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi.
· Bullock, R, Ralph, Gina M, Stump,E, Al Abdali, F. Al Asfoor, J Al Buwaiqi, B AlKindi, A Ambuali, A Birge, T Borsa, P DiDario, F Everett, B Fennessy, S Fonseca, C and Gorman,C and Govender, A and Ho, Hsuan-Ching and Holleman,W and Jiddawi, N and Khan, M and Larson, H and Linardich,Christi and Matiku, P and Matsuura, K and Maunde,C and Motomura, H and Munroe, T A and Nair, RekhaJ and Obota, C and Polidoro, B and Russell, B and Shaheen,S and Sithole, Y and Smith-Vaniz, W F and Uiblein,F and Weerts, S P and Williams, A and Yahya, S and Carpenter,K (2021) Conservationstatus of marine biodiversity of the Western Indian Ocean. Other.IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature, Switzerland.
· Nair, Rekha J and Kuriakose, Somy (2014) Field Guide on Reef Associated Fishesof India. CMFRI Special Publication (117). Central MarineFisheries Research Institute, Kochi.
Links to other profiles :
- Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=nuv5U_AAAAAJ
- ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rekha_Nair6/research
