Bio-Data 1. Name (With Designation) Dr. K.V. Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor 2. Contact details Dept. of Fisheries Resource Management (FRM), College of Fisheries, CAU (I), Lembucherra, Agartala, Tripura (W) - 799 210 3. Career Senior Research Fellow (2000-2005), NAT- ICAR Project, School of Industrial Fisheries, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala. Post Doctoral Fellow (2008-2010), Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China. Post Doctoral Fellow (2010-2012), School of Life Sciences, South China University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China. Assistant Professor (2012- till date), Dept. of Fisheries Resource Management (FRM), COF, CAU (I), Lembucherra, Tripura. 4. Awards and Honours Young Scientist award for the year 2005 under the discipline - Agriculture, Fisheries and Veterinary Sciences in the XVII Kerala Science Congress held at Kerala Forest Research Institute organized by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, 29-31 January 2005. Best oral presentation award under the discipline - Aquatic Resources and Conservation in the National seminar on Fisheries and Aquaculture: Livelihood security, Sustainability and Conservation 21-22 January 2016.
5. Research Area Taxonomy, Biology and Resource Assessment of Fishes 6. Projects ( Ongoing and Completed) Sl. No. Title of the project 1 Development of Indices of Habitat Suitability (HSI) and Biotic Integrity (IBI) for fish and Habitat Conservation in Teesta River 2 Inventorisation, Characterization and documentation of local knowledge on fishes in the two Himalayan Rivers: Teesta and Rangit in Sikkim State, India 3 Population characteristics and stock assessment of commercially important indigenous fishes of Tripura 4 Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowship for Young International Researchers 5 Some Biological Aspects on Ompok bimaculatus, a commercially important food fish of Tripura 6 Centre of Excellence on Fisheries and Aquaculture Biotechnology Level of Period association (PI/Co-PI) PI 2015-2017 (ongoing) Funding Agency National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Lucknow PI 2012-2015 National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Lucknow PI 2013-2015 Central Agricultural University, Imphal PI 2008-2010 Govt. of People Republic of China Co-PI 2013-2014 Central Agricultural University, Imphal Co-PI 2013-2018 (ongoing) Department of Biotechnolog y (DBT), Govt. of India Total Amount (Lakhs) 7.5 10.24 1.45 0.1 Million RMB (equivalent to 8 lakhs in Indian Rupees) 1.45 107.3
Publications: 1. K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2016. Natural feeding behaviour and methods of niche analysis of Fishes, 92-98 pp. In: Course Manual on Species diversification in NE Aquaculture and Management. College of Fisheries, Tripura, 23-29 February 2016. 2. K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2015. Collection and Acclimatisation of Indigenous Ornamental Fishes, pp. 05-08. In: Vocational Training Manual on Ornamental fish Culture and Aquarium Management. College of Fisheries, Tripura, 10 th March to 09 th April 2015. 3. R.K. Saha, B. Saha, K.V. Radhakrishnan, J.R. Dhanze, 2015. Indigenous Technical Knowledge on Fisheries. College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, ISSN: 978-81-924530-5-7. 4. S. Sureshkumar, K. Ranjeet, K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2014. Live Handling and Domestication of Selected Indigenous Ornamental Fishes of India. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 1(5): 08-11. 5. K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2013. Fisheries Resource Assessment Techniques for North east India. In: NFDB Training manual on Methods and Techniques for improved Production, Utilisation and Conservation of Fishery Resources of North-East India. College of Fisheries, Tripura, 14-18 March 2013. 6. K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2013. Morphometric and meristic measurements-basic requirements for systematic fish identification. pp.17-21. In: Collection, Preservation, Cataloguing, Preliminary identification and application of molecular tools for confirmation of Systematic identity. College of Fisheries, Tripura, 8-12 March 2013. 7. K.V. Radhakrishnan, Y. Li, K.V. Jayalakshmy, M. Liu, B. R. Murphy, S. Xie, 2012. Application of otolith shape analysis in identifying different ecotypes of Coilia ectenes in the Yangtze Basin, China. Fisheries Research 156-160. 8. K. V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, B. R. Murphy, S. Xie, 2012. Status of alien fish species in the Western Ghats (India) as revealed from 2000 2004 surveys and literature analyses. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28, 778-784. 9. A Benziger, S Philip, R Raghavan, PHA Ali, M Sukumaran, JC Tharian, N Dahanukar, F Baby, R Peter, K Rema Devi, KV Radhakrishnan, MA Haniffa, R Britz, A. Antunes, 2011. Unravelling a 146 Years Old Taxonomic Puzzle: Validation of Malabar Snakehead, Species- Status and Its Relevance for Channid Systematics and Evolution. PLoS ONE 6: e21272. doi:10.1371/journal. pone. 0021272. 10. K.V. Radhakrishnan, Z.J. Lan, J. Zhao, N. Qing, X.L. Huang, 2011. Invasion of the African sharp-tooth catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) in south China. Biological Invasions DOI 10.1007/s10530-011-0004-0. 11. K.V. Radhakrishnan, S. Sureshkumar, H.H. Ng, 2011. Pseudolaguvia austrina, a new species of sisorid catfish (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes) from Peninsular India. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 21(4): 377-383.
12. W. He, Y. Li, M. Liu, K.V. Radhakrishnan, Z. Li, B. R. Murphy, S. Xie, 2011. Reproductive biology of Coilia mystus (Linnaeus) from the Yangtze Estuary, China: responses to overexploitation. Journal of Applied Ichthyology doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2011.01767.x. 13. K. Krishna Kumar, F.G. Benno Periera, K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2011. Puntius madhusoodani (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), a new species of barb from Manimala River, Kerala, South India Biosystematica 5(2): 31-37. 14. K.V. Radhakrishnan, M. Liu, W. He, B. R. Murphy, S. Xie, 2010. Otolith retrieval from faeces and reconstruction of prey fish size for Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) wintering at the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve, China. Environmental Biology of Fishes 89: 505-512. 15. F. Cheng, Q. Wu, M. Liu, K.V. Radakrishinan, S. Xie, 2010. Impacts of hatchery release on genetic structure of rock carp (Procypris rabaudi Tchang) population in the upper Yangtze, China. Fisheries Science DOI 10.1007/s12562-011-0383-2. 16. K.V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, 2010. Ichthyodiversity of Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2(10): 1192-1198. 17. S. Xie, H. Liu, H. Chen, K.V. Radhakrishnan, X. Zhang, 2010. Status of breeding, farming and trade of ornamental fishes in China. In the Souvenir published in connection with Ornamentals Kerala 2010, 13-15 February Cochin, India. 18. K.V. Radhakrishnan, W. He, M. Liu, S. Xie, 2009. Otoliths-the biological CD-ROMs of fish. Current Science 97(8), 1121-1122. 19. K.V. Radhakrishnan, K.K. Hameed, 2007. Documentation and Digitization of Indigenous traditional knowledge of Kerala (Manual in Malayalam). Kerala State Information technology Mission.p.34. 20. B. M. Kurup, K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2006. Tor remadevii, A new species of Mahaseer from Kerala (South India), and distribution and abundance of Tor spp in the river systems of Kerala. Pp. 53-60. In: Proceedings of the international Symposium on the Mahseer - Mahseer the biology, culture and conservation (Ed: Siti Shapor Siraj, Annie Christianus, Ng CK, Sena De Silva) 29-30 March, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 21. B. M. Kurup, K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2006. Indigenous ornamental fish resources of Western Ghats with special reference to Kerala. In: Proceedings of International Ornamental Aquashow, 2006, Cochin, Kerala, India. 22. K.V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, 2005. Distribution and stock size of potential ornamental fishes of Kerala with special reference to sustainable issues. pp. 590-605. In: Proceedings of Sustain fish 2005 international symposium on improved sustainability of production systems and appropriate technologies for utilization,16-18 th March 2005, Cochin, India. 23. K.V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, 2005. Fish Germplasm resources of major rivers of Kerala with special reference to distribution pattern and conservation status of threatened fishes. pp. 4-5. In: Proceedings of 17 th Kerala Science Congress held at KFRI Peechi from 29-31 January 2005.
24. B.M. Kurup, K.V. Radhakrishnan. 2005. Status of freshwater fish germplasm resources of Kerala. Pp. 537-554. In: Proceedings of Sustain fish 2005 international symposium on improved sustainability of production systems and appropriate technologies for utilization, 16-18th March 2005, Cochin, India. 25. C.J. Euphrasia, K.V. Radhakrishnan, B.M. Kurup, 2005. The threatened freshwater fishes of Kerala. pp. 571-588. In: Proceedings of Sustain fish 2005 international symposium on improved sustainability of production systems and appropriate technologies for utilization, 16-18 th March 2005, Cochin, India. 26. K.V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, 2002. Food and feeding habits of Puntius denisonii (Day)- An endemic endangered ornamental fish of Kerala (South India). Pp. AF-4. In: Proceedings of the workshop on the Life history traits for the conservation; organised by NBFGR, Lucknow. 27. K.V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, 2002. Length weight relationship of potential ornamental fishes of Kerala (South India). pp. AA-6. In: Proceedings of the workshop on the Life history traits of fish populations for its Utilisation in conservation; organized by NBFGR, Lucknow. 28. B.M. Kurup, K.V. Radhakrishnan, 2002. Biodiversity status of fishes inhabiting rivers of Kerala with special reference to endemism, threats and conservation measures. In: the Proceedings of Second international Symposia on the management of Larger rivers, Cambodia (http:// www.fao.org/ docrep/007/ad526e/ad526e0f.htm). 29. B.M. Kurup, K.V. Radhakrishnan, C.J. Euphrasia, 2002. Length weight relationships of some of the endangered and critically endangered fresh water fishes of Kerala part of Western Ghats. pp. AA-2. In: Proceedings of the workshop on the Life history traits of fish population for its utilization in Conservation organized by NBFGR, Lucknow 30. K.V. Radhakrishnan, B. M. Kurup, 2001. Habitat preference and biodiversity assessment of potential freshwater ornamental fishes of Kerala.pp.162-171. In: Proceedings of Riverine and Reservoir fisheries of India (Bhoopendranath, M. R., Meenakumari, B., Joseph, J., Sankar, T.V., Pravin, P. and Edwin, L., Eds.), Society of Fisheries Technologists (India), Cochin, Kerala.