As a fisheries scientist, Dr. Modadugu Vijay Gupta of India’s involvement in research spanning a period of 5 decades in a number of countries in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, resulted in significant increase in fish production and laid foundation for the Blue Revolution.
As a food resource able to provide relatively low-cost, high quality animal protein, aquaculture has emerged as a possible solution to address the looming food crisis and nutrition insecurity as a result of population increase and climate change.