Research Areas: Conservation & Breeding of endangered fish
Sustainable Aquaculture & Seed Production
Exploration and Documenting freshwater water fish Biodiversity
• Fish Milt Cryopreservation and Fish cell line development
Current Research Projects:

• CRP-Agrobiodiversity (PAGR Component): Conservation aquaculture of endemic fish species from Peninsular rivers through captive propagation and culture evaluation.
• Network Project on Ornamental Fish Breeding and Culture:
• Up-Scaling of Fish Milt Cryopreservation Tools for Sustainability of Aquaculture Seed
• Exploration of Fish Diversity in the Tributaries of the Cauvery River and Identification of Mahseers in the Rivers of the Western Ghats with a Focus on Their Conservation:

1. Abhilash, C.P., Ravi, C., KR, S., Varghese, S., BL, C., TT, A.K., Sarkar, U.K. and Basheer, V.S., 2025. Captive breeding, embryonic development, and conservation of the endangered catfish, Horabagrus nigricollaris (Pethiyagoda & Kottelat 1994): a first report. Aquaculture International, 33(1), p.121
2. Chandana, B.L., Abhilash, C.P., Saikrishnan, K.R., Ravi, C., Sarkar, U.K. and Basheer, V.S., 2025. Reproductive interventions for revitalising the sustainable production of Malabar labeo, Labeo dussumieri, an indigenous candidate for aquaculture diversification. Current Science (00113891), 128(6).
3. Rahul G. Kumar, Charan Ravi, N. P. Krishnaprasoon and V. S. Basheer. 2024. A new sympatric species of Horabagrus (Siluriformes: Horabagridae) from the Chalakkudy river basin in Kerala, India. Indian J. Fish., 71 (4): 20-26,
4. Rahul G. Kumar, Charan Ravi and V. S. Basheer., 2025. Identity of Labeo nigrescens Day, 1870 with descriptions of two new Labeo species from the Southern Western Ghats. Indian Journal of Fisheries Kumar, R.G., Charan, R., Krishnaprasoon, N.P. and Basheer, V.S., 2021. Catfishes of the genus Sperata (Pisces: Bagridae) in India. Journal of Fish Biology, 98(2), pp.456-469.
5. Kumar, R.G., Charan, R., Krishnaprasoon, N.P. and Basheer, V.S., 2021. Catfishes of the genus Sperata (Pisces: Bagridae) in India. Journal of Fish Biology, 98(2), pp.456-469.

For complete list of publications, link to Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tZUDlRcAAAAJ&hl=en

• Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation Society (ABCS) has conferred the Young Scientist Award - 2024 in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of aquatic biodiversity conservation