Debasish Pandit is now working as a Lecturer, Department of Oceanography, Faculty of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, Bangladesh. He has a strong academic and research background in aquatic resource management, open water fisheries management, biodiversity conservation, aquaculture, and socio-economic perspectives of fishers. His research interest also includes small-scale fisheries, aquatic pollution, coal mine drainage, heavy metals and climate change.