Md. Liaquat Ali
Senior Fellow, BCAS

Mr. Liaquat Ali is a fisheries resource development and management specialist. He has vast experience in project identification, planning, designing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation including survey/investigation/studies on fisheries resources, aquaculture and fisheries related aspects, socio-economics, fish consumption, fish processing and marketing, stock assessment, fish catch assessment and production estimate. He is also an expert on policy formulation and institutional development, formulation and implementation of fisheries laws and regulations. He has also reviewed fisheries sectoral activities including policy, legal and institutional issues, open water fisheries (inland and marine) management and development, stock enhancement and floodplain stocking, Study of the livelihood and socio-economic condition of fishing community. He has experience on aquaculture (fish and coastal shrimp culture) management and sustainable development, extension and training, impact assessment of different types of aquaculture and fisheries management practices and manmade and natural intervention on fish population, fish production, socio-economics, fish consumption, ecology and environment, biodiversity etc. He has prepared scientific papers, status paper/report and review paper/report on different aspects of fish and fisheries and related activities. He has experience to work with Remote Sensing Technology for resource assessment and monitoring. He has participated in a number of national, regional and international seminar, symposium, workshop and conference. As head of organization (Director General, DoF) and National Project Director of a number of donor funded large projects he has proven experience on administrative and financial aspects including maintenance, coordination and liaison with different national, bilateral and international organizations.  

Publications and Reports : 

• Institutions and policies for wetland management & development in Bangladesh. Paper presented in the national conference on Wetlands : People, Land, Water and Fish, held on 13-14 July 2002 in IDB Bhaban, Dhaka, Bangladesh, organized by MOFL and Bangladesh Wetland network.

• Strengthening Aquaculture Extension services in Bangladesh through trickle down approach sponsored by FAO & submitted to FAO for publication 1998.

• An assessment of the economic benefit from stocking seasonal floodplains in Bangladesh presented at the export consultation on Inland Fisheries Enhancement organized by FAO & DFID at Dhaka, Bhangladesh, 7-11 April 1997. (FAO Fisheries Technical paper No. 374, 1998).

• Potential, constraints and strategies for conservation and Management of Inland open water Fisheries in Bangladesh. Presented in the National workshop on Fisheries Resources Development and Management in Bangladesh held on 29 Oct – 1 Nov. 1995 FAO, BOBP, ODA & GOB.

• Fisheries Resources Development in Bangladesh presented in the seminar on Fisheries Resources Development & its contribution in the Economy of Bangladesh held at Dhaka on 20 August 1995.

• "Open water Fish Stocking"- A Tool for Management of the Fisheries Resources, presented as a key note paper in the Annual Conference of Zoological Society of Bangladesh, held in January, 1995 at Dhaka.

• "Culture based fisheries"- an approach towards increasing fish production in the Ganges flood plain, presented in the National Seminar on Integrated Management of Ganges flood plain & sundarbans Ecosystem held at Khulna University in July, 1994.

• Survey and data collection in Rural fishing community for fisheries Resources Management in Bangladesh, presented in the seminar on Open Water Fisheries Management in Bangladesh held in January, 1989 at Dhaka.

• Inland Fisheries Resources, present status and potential in Bangladesh, Presented in the National Seminar on Fisheries Development in Bangladesh held in January, 1985.

• Identifying climatic factors influencing fish and shellfish landing in Maryland, Fishery Bulletin Vol., 80 No.3 1983, NOAA. USA.j) Assessing harvest of Palagic & invertebrate fisheries of Northern Chesapeake Bay in terms of environmental variation, 1980 Int. Come Exp. Sea code .C.M. 1980/ H: 43. SP.

• The changes in Fish Community and Major carp population in the Beel in Sylhet- Myemnsingh Basin, Bangladesh. Indian journal of Fishery Vol. 34, No. (1),1987.

• Carp Spawn Fishery in the Padma (Ganges), Brahmaputra River System, Bangladesh-Indian journal of Fishery, Vol. 33 No. (4) 1986.

• Shrimp Farm Survey ( Physical & Biological) in coastal area of Bangladesh. Information Bulletin Fisheries Resources Survey System 1984.

• Open Water Fisheries Management in Bangladesh. Fisheries Information Bulletin Fisheries Resources Survey System, Department of Fisheries, Vol. 2 No. 4 (1985).

• Application of Remote sensing by Landsat to study the water quality of Karnaphuli Reservoir & the river Buriganaga & Shitalakhya in relation to fisheries resources management; presented in the second Bangladesh National Seminar on Remote Sensing held in December 1979 and published in the proceeding.

• Economic and catch assessment in Chandpur, Muhuri, Halda and Ichamati Irrigation and Flood Control Project area, working document No. 1,2,7,15, 25 & 43.q) Investigation of spawning activity of major carp in the river Halda (Memio)

• Fish Market Survey ( Fish Assemblage) in the markets of Chandpur Police Station, unpublished report.

• Meristic characters of juvenile of Adult Hilsa (Hilsa ilisha) in Bangladesh, Journal of Biological and Aquaculture Science, Deptt, of Bio-Chemistry, Dhaka University. 

• Length-weight relationship of Macrobrachium resenbergii (Bemar) of Dakatial River, Bangladesh Journal of Aquaculture, Agriculture University Vol. 1 No. 1 1978.