Editorial: Hilsa shad: progress in science and management

Over the last 120 years, research efforts on the species biology, ecology, and aquaculture/domestication practices have been made in different regional countries at different periods of time. Since the 1940s, Indian scientists from Central Inland Fisheries Research Institutes (CIFRI) have made significant contributions on the food and feeding, migration, and reproductive biology of hilsa, while during the mid-1980s, researchers from Bangladesh contributed immensely toward the breeding and biology of the species. Figure 1 Figure 1 Recent developments in cage culture of hilsa in the river Ganga, Farakka, India (Courtesy: B.K.Das, ICAR-CIFRI). Since last decade much scientific information on the hilsa biology and management have been generated from Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar. [...]climate change has been one of the major factors affecting the river discharge, rainfall, water temperature, and salinity, directly impacting the breeding physiology and migration patterns of hilsa. [...]in the present context, this Research Topic provides the latest scientific knowledge and management practices and policies on hilsa fisheries.