Dr. Grinson George, Principal Scientist at CMFRI, Kochi since 2018 is on deputation as Senior Programme Specialist (Fisheries) to SAARC Agriculture Centre, Dhaka coordinating the fisheries and aquaculture programmes for eight South Asian Nations. He has been active in teaching, research, policy, administration, academics, and industry related to fisheries and aquaculture for over 20 years. Specialized in Fisheries Resource Management, he completed the post-doctoral research at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom. He served as honorary coordinator CPR Environmental foundation and Juliette Massey Honorary fellow of World Aquaculture Society. He worked at the Ministry of Education, Maldives (2003- 04), as a Scientist at CIARI, Port Blair (2005-12) and Senior Scientist at CMFRI (2012-18). His current research focus is on Citizen Science initiatives to address water- quality using satellite remote-sensing and marine bio-optics. He is the recipient of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Puraskar by ICAR; Dr. Hiralal Chaudhury and Dr. Kulkarni award by CIFE.