D N DasProf. Debangshu Narayan Das of the Department of Zoology, Rajiv Gandhi University (formerly Arunachal University) has made significant contribution in the field of mountain fisheries, especially in areas such as taxonomy, reproductive biology and theartificial propagation of hill stream food and ornamental fishes of Arunachal Pradesh since his joining here in the year of 1998. Prof. Das has well organized fisheries research Unit and are involved in discovery of new species, delineation of aquatic ecology of hill stream as well as development of culture based fisheries in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. So far, 10 new species with new nomenclature to the world record have been discovered by the Unit. In addition, he has successfully supervised the works of 12 Ph.D. awardees from the University and currently two Postdoctoral Research associates (RA) and 08 research scholars have been working for research and development in various aspects of eastern Himalaya mountain fisheries. Prof. Das also successfully completed various research projects under the funding of DBT New Delhi, UGC New Delhi and collaborative programs with ICAR, New Delhi along with some institutional mega projects (sponsored by UGC New Delhi) on CPEB I & II. He published more than 115 research articles in reputed international and national journals, 04 co-authored books, numbers of book chapters and more than 35 popular articles in different languages in his own credit. Read More Read Less