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DR. YUGRAJ SINGH YADAVA
Director, Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-
Governmental Organisation, Chennai
Dr. Yadava heads the Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation.
With a career spanning 45 years, Dr. Yadava has worked as a Fisheries Scientist
with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, as Fisheries Development
Commissioner to the Government of India and as Member Secretary of the Coastal
Aquaculture Authority.
Dr. Yadava’s research and developmental works inter alia include pioneering
studies on large river systems and their floodplains, promoting small-scale
aquaculture, implementing the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries;
improving Monitoring, Control and Surveillance regime in the region and building
the resilience of small-scale fishers to face the vagaries of the sea and climate-
induced changes.
Dr. Yadava has worked in several countries in South and South-east Asia. A prolific
writer and a photographer, he has about 150 published works and 50,000 quality
pictures on fisheries from different parts of the world in his photo archives.
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