Fishes are the most abundant and yet least known class of vertebrates. They inhabit every kind of aquatic environment and their wide distribution has resulted in many different designs for their special order of life. The present literature reviews what is known about the fishes. It gives a comprehensive account of the Fishery Science and also offers diverse information through step by step procedures. It covers all basic information on the subject of fisheries of India, to make the reader s up-to-date with the latest details where proliferation of scientific information has not been only fast but enormous too in the last decade. Written in scholarly yet easy to understandable language. It combines the usefulness of a reference work with the readability of a browsing book, perfect for anyone attuned to the splendour of our material world. Encyclopaedia of Fishes and Fisheries of India comprises of a set of 7 volumes dealing with classification and diversity; comparative morphology and anatomy; applied ichthyology including gear and crafts; freshwater, brackish water and marine fisheries and identifications of Indian fishes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A K Pandey
Dr. Ashok kumar Pandey (b. 19400, Basically a keen student of literature having a brilliant academic career with first class first position both at B.A. , Hons, & M.A. levels and securing gold medals, is in I.A.S. officer of 1965 batch. Dr. Pandey was sponsored during his tenure with the Ministry of Defence for a post graduate course to the University of Manchester . U.K. where hhe completed his course with distinetin and was awarded Post Graduate degree in Development Administration (1975). The administrative skill and prudence of Dr. Pandey are reflected also in the fact thathe served with different central Minister, Viz. inister of Energy, Minister of tourism, Civil Avistion & Labour, Minister of Tourism , civil Aviation & Labour, Minister of State for Defence and Minister for commerce as Special assistant very successfully and competently. Dr. Pandey is presently heading the personnel, industrial relations & training divisions in the Food corporation of India, New Delhi. A widely travelled person, Dr. Pandey has visited U.S.A., U.K. F.R.O., Fioland. Neitherlands, switizerland, Austria, Helgium, Iran, Ethiopia , etc. In various capacities and mainly as a member of several detergations while working in the Ministry of commerce. A member of different academic organizations, Dr Pandey is a very keen student of development administration and has contributed to the area of knowledge by wy of imparting training and writing scholarly papers.
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