P. Pavinkumar

• Master in Fisheries (FRM)
• Assistant Professor at Tamil Nadu Dr. J Jayalalithaa Fisheries University

Bhavanisagar reservoir, built across the Bhavani river, a major tributary of the river Cauvery is one of the largest reservoirs in India and second largest reservoir in Tamil Nadu. Bhavanisagar dam having an average reservoir size of 3695 ha. As part of a study on checking the occurrences of the fish species along Bhavanisagar reservoir, the first...

Global warming and increasing CO2 play an important role in making terrestrial and aquatic life highly pathetic. Microalgae have many advantages over other methods in bioremediation and carbon sequestration including eco-friendly nature, less space requirement, and sustainable energy production from wastes. The aim of the present investigation is t...

Sharks play an important role in the ecosystem by maintaining the species below them in food chain and serving as a indicator of ocean health. Sharks are one of the most important groups of predators of the planet and having over a broad distribution of habitats in every ocean. They are important for maintaining stability in ocean food chain. In ad...

There are 54 estuarine wetlands known from Tamil Nadu of which 13 estuarine wetlands explored for fish biodiversity assessment. Systematic and updated checklist of estuarine fishes contains 330 species distributed under 205 genera, 95 families, 23 orders and two classes. The most diverse order was perciformes with 175 species, 100 genera and 43 fam...

Estuarine Fishes of Southern Tamil Nadu

A detailed analysis was undertaken to study the growth and mortality characteristics of the Otolithes ruber in Thoothukudi coast from July 2006 to June 2007. The growth parameters L∞, K and t0 were estimated as 37.28 cm, 0.27 and-0.58 respectively. The K value of O. ruber was relatively low which inferring slow growth rate of this tropical demersal...

The investigation was contacted for 12 months (September 2013 to August 2014) to document the fish diversity and ecological status of Manakudy estuary in the Kanyakumari district of southern Tamil Nadu. During the study period 77 number of fish species were recorded which were coming under 41 families belongs to 11 orders. Most dominant fish specie...

New species of freshwater fishes recorded for first time during last three decades form India is reviewed. In total 150 new species of freshwater fishes belonging to 5 order, 22 family and 44 genera have been emerged from different locality of India. Cypriniformes was the most dominant order represented by 69 species belonging to 5 family and 17 ge...

Present paper overviews potential implications of the proposed river linking project on aquatic ecosystems. River linking might have positive as well as negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems, such as water quality changes, loss of habitat, alteration in spawning and breeding grounds, effect on fish migration, changes in land-ocean interactions, ef...