July 2, 2020
India’s fisheries: Past, present, and future
COVID-19 has exposed the gaps in our marine fishing industry, while also showing us how to rebuild it.
Mahima Jaini is an independent marine biologist, currently based in Delhi. For the past few years she worked at Dakshin Foundation as a marine researcher in their biodiversity and resource monitoring programme, with projects in Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Her past studies have focused on a range of questions regarding fisheries ecology, development, coral reef communities, zooplankton dynamics, and biological recruitment. Mahima has a bachelors in marine science and a masters in marine biology from the University of Maine, USA.