Research Areas:Conservation Aquaculture, Ornamental fish breeding and culture, Fish milt Cryopreservation
Current Research Projects:

• CRP on Agrobiodiversity: Evaluation of fish germplasm from Indo-Gangetic rivers for their captive breeding, domestication, and conservation aquaculture (NBFGR HQ component)
• Fish milt cryopreservation for broodstock development and quality seed production
• Network project of ornamental fish breeding and culture
• Study of Reproductive phenology variation of Notopterus notopterus in wild and captive environment

1. Tamut, H., Singh, R*., Kumar, S., Kumar, A., Gupta, M., Singh, A., Nishad, C.S., Sah, R.S., Singh, A.K., Kumar, A. and Lal, K.K., 2025. Semen characteristics and optimisation of sperm cryopreservation protocol of a commercially important minor carp Labeo gonius (Hamilton, 1822). Indian Journal of Fisheries, 72(1).
2. Nityanand Pandey, Bipin Kumar Vishvakarma, Raghvendra Singh and Monika Gupta (2024). Comparative study of heat shock and pressure shock for triploidy induction in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Indian J. Fish., 71 (1): 155-161.
3. Pandey, N. N., Monika Gupta., Singh, R., Ali, S., Haldar, R. S., Kumar, P., and Singh, A. K. (2017). Breeding performance of indigenous carp, Labeo dero in captivity under cold water condition of Uttarakhand, India. Journal of Environmental Biology, 38(5):771-775
4. Venkatesh R. Thakur, A. Alam, J. Kumar, M. Gupta, B. K. Bhattacharjya, R. S. Shrivastava, D. N. Jha and B. K. Das, (2023) Productivity enhancement through enclosure culture in a sub-tropical wetland of Bundelkhand region, India, Indian J. Fish., 70 (4): 61-66.
5. Alam, A., Jeetendra Kumar, D. N. Jha, S. C. S. Das, V. R. Thakur, Monika Gupta, and Das, B. K. (2022). Spawning Season, Fecundity, and Size at First Maturity of a Freshwater Mullet, Minimugil cascasia (Hamilton 1822), from subtropical River