Professor Indar W. Ramnarine
Professor of Fisheries and Aquaculture; Deputy Principal, UWI St. Augustine Campus
Deputy Principal’s Office
The University of The West Indies
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: 868-662-2002 Ext 82184
Email: Indar.Ramnarine@sta.uwi.edu
Publications
Qualifications
- • M.B.A. Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh Business School) – specializing in Human Resource Management (2001)
- • Ph.D. (Zoology; in the field of fish biology and aquaculture) U.W.I. (1992)
- • M.Sc. (Fisheries Biology and Management) University of Wales (1985)
- • B.Sc. (Agric) Upper Second Class Honours, U.W.I. (1980)
Research Interests
- • Aquaculture development and sustainability
- • Aquaponics
- • Fish biology
- • Fisheries management issues and sustainability
- • Environmental issues
- • Fish and crustacean biodiversity
- • Fish behaviour
Public Service
- • Past Chairman, Board of Governors, Institute of Marine Affairs 2010 - 2016
- • Deputy Chairman of the National Environmental Assessment Task Force
- • Past Chairman of the University School Council
- • Past Deputy Chairman of the Fisheries Monitoring & Advisory Committee of T&T
- • Former member of the National Wetlands Committee of T&T
- • Past President of the Aquaculture Association of T&T
Professional Memberships
- • World Aquaculture Society
- • United States Aquaculture Society
- • Fisheries Society of the British Isles
- • Aquaculture Association of Trinidad & Tobago
- • American Tilapia Society
Research Projects
- • Embryology, larval development, larviculture, nutritional requirements, and production technology of indigenous species of fish and shellfish with aquacultural potential
- • Intensification of the culture of tilapia and cascadu
- • Urban aquaculture and aquaponics
- • Environmental issues: heavy metals and other toxicants in food fish
- • Fish and crustacean biodiversity
Graduate Students
- • Zaheer Hosein (M.Phil) The trawl fishery of Trinidad
- • Lauren Ali (M.Phil) The artisanal shark fishery of T&T (with Dr Judith Gobin)
