Brajgeet Bhathal completed her MSc. at the Department of Zoology, UBC in December 2004. Under supervision of Dr. Daniel Pauly, she has shown in her MSc. thesis, via reconstruction of catch data (1950 to 2000) and use of ecosystem indicators i.e., Marine Trophic Index and FiB index (also see Sea Around Us website), that the marine fisheries in India appear to be unsustainable at the ecosystem level.

However, to further support this and better understand the fishing impacts, there is need for further research. Thus, she will continue her research on Indian fisheries as a PhD. student under supervision of Dr. Daniel Pauly, with emphasis on effort and cost data, and build ecosystem models to explore different policy options for fishery management in India.

She has received McLean Fraser Memorial Scholarship, 2005, by the department of Zoology, UBC, for outstanding research and high academic standing and is winner of the Cecil and Kathleen Morrow Scholarship, 2004. She is also working as a collaborator of FishBase and CephBase.

Publications:

Bhathal, B. 2005. Historical reconstruction of Indian marine fisheries catches, 1950-2000, as a basis for testing the 'Marine Trophic Index'. Fisheries Center Research Report 13(5), 122 pp.

Bhathal, B. and Pauly, D. 2004. Paris and its Jardin des Plantes, or The 2004 annual meeting of the FishBase consortium. FishBytes 10(5): 6.

Bhathal, B. 2004 Historical reconstruction of Indian marine fisheries catches, 1950-2000, as basis for testing the 'Marine Trophic Index'. Faculty of Graduate Studies. Vancouver, the University of British Columbia: 1-141

Bhathal, B. 2003. Gateway to Indian fishes. FishBytes 9(5): 4-5