Obituary

The Ichthyological Society of Japan was deeply saddened to lean the death of one of its former Editorial Board Members, Dr. Robert J. Wootton.

2014 ISJ meeting, Odawara, 14–17 November 2014

The 47th annual meeting of the Ichthyological Society of Japan (ISJ) will be held at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (http://nh.kanagawa-museum.jp/index_en.html) in Odawara, Japan from 14 to 17 November 2014. The board of editors and trustees will be held on 14 November, and scientific sessions including oral and poster presentations on 15 and 16 November. Three symposia entitled “Evolutionary genetic mechanisms of adaptation and speciation in fishes: frontiers of research and future perspective”, “Amphidromy in fishes: its life-history diversification and evolution” and “Recent status and problems of invasive alien fishes in Japan: What has changed in the 10 years since the enactment of the Invasive Alien Species Act?” will be held on 17 November. Participants are requested to pay the following: registration fee (JPY 3,500), mixer fee (JPY 6,000) and abstracts of papers (JPY 2,000, Japanese with English title). For student, registration and mixer fees discount JPY 1,500 and JPY 1,000, respectively. Contact Dr. Hiroshi Senou (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, e-mail: isj-nenkai2014@bunken.co.jp) for further information on the annual meeting. Detailed information will be provided on the ISJ official website (http://www.fish-isj.jp/index-e.html).

Papers published in Japanese Journal of Ichthyology

The following papers were published in Japanese Journal of Ichthyology Volume 61, Number 1 on 25 April 2014, and English abstracts are available on the ISJ website (http://www.fish-isj.jp/english/journal.html).

Volume 61, Number 1

Full Papers

Spawning ecology of Honmoroko, Gnathopogon caerulescens, in inlets of the Nishinoko lagoon, Lake Biwa. Takeshi Kikko, Haruo Okamoto, Muneji Ujiie, Daisuke Ishizaki, Takahiro Usuki, Morihito Nemoto, Jin Saegusa, Yoshiaki Kai and Yasuhiro Fujioka.

Viable periods of fertilizability of eggs and sperm of Japanese medaka, Oryzias latipes. Yukari Koike and Yasunori Koya.

Reproductive population dynamics of the Far Eastern Catfish, Silurus asotus estimated from mark and recapture and Bayesian modeling. Toshinori Funao, Koh-ichi Takakura, Takayoshi Nishida and Hiroichi Sawada.

Short Reports

First Japanese record of the eyelight fish Photoblepharon palpebratum from Okinawa Island. Keita Koeda, Takuma Fujii and Tetsuo Yoshino.