Welcome to the
EARLY LIFE HISTORY SECTION
of the American Fisheries Society
The purpose of
these pages is to provide a rapid means to disseminate information to ELHS
members and anyone looking for information about the ELHS section. As such,
these pages will complement Stages, our official
ELHS Newsletter.
WHAT'S NEW?
Larval Fish Conference Information: The 33rd Larval Fish Conference will be held in conjunction with the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 22 - 27 July 2009 in Portland, Oregon USA. Further information about the meeting can be found here.
The 32nd Larval Fish Conference was held 4-7 August 2008 at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science (IFM-GEOMAR), Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. Further information about the meeting can be found below.
2008 Sally Richardson Award:
The twenty-third annual Sally Richardson award for the best student paper presented at the 32nd Early Life History Annual Meeting was given in Kiel, Germany August 2008.
Congratulations to Knut Vollset, winner of the 2008 Sally Leonard Richardson Award for the best student paper. The title of Knut's presentation was "Thermoregulatory behavior in larval fish: an experimental approach” Co-authors I.A. Catalan, O Fiksen, A. Folkvord. Knut is with the Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Honorable mentions went to Shinnosuke Nakayamaa and Kenneth Webb
Shinnosuke's presentation was entitled, "The downside of batch spawning: interference competition for food in young red
drum", Co-author L.A. Fuiman, Department of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin.
Kenneth's presentation was entitled, "Postprandial Colecystokinin and trypsin response of larval red drum (Sciaenops
ocellatus)", Co-author G. Joan Holt, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas.
Congratulations to these three for an excellent job, and a hearty thanks to all the students who presented talks and the people who judged them.
2008 J.H.S. Blaxter Award:
Congratulations to Michael Donner, winner of the 2008 John H.S. Blaxter Award for the best student poster presented at the 32nd Larval Fish Conference, Kiel, Germany August 2008. Michael's poster, entitled "Diel vertical migration of young-of-the-year burbot as an adaptation to maximize
growth in the oligotrophic, prealpine lake Constance”, was co-authored by R. Eckmann
from the University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute, Konstanz, Germany.
Travel Grants to 2008 LFC:
The Student Travel Grants Committee awarded travel grants to four students presenting papers at the 32nd annual Larval Fish Conference in Kiel, Germany. This year's grants were $500 each. Congratulations to our winners listed below.
Elvira Morote, Institut de Ciencies del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Shinnosuke Nakayama, Department of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, Texas, USA
Meri Harma, Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute Fisheries Research, Helsinki, Finland
Laure Carassou, IRD, Nouméa, New Caledonia
STAGES ONLINE:
The October 2008 Issue of Stages is now available. E-mail items for STAGES to: lee.fuiman@mail.utexas.edu
Now Available at special pre-publication discount! “Early Life History of Marine Fishes” authored by Bruce S. Miller and Arthur W. Kendall, Jr. Information is available online here .
Now Available! “Fish Larval Physiology” edited by R.N. Finn and B.G. Kapoor. Information is available online here .
Now Available! Larval Fish Conference Proceedings. Electronic copies or ordering information are available online here .
Now Available Online! “Recent Advances in the Study of Fish Eggs and Larvae” edited by M.P. Olivar and J.J. Govoni. Articles are available online here . You may distribute these PDF files freely. The full reference is: Olivar, M.P. and J.J. Govoni (Eds.). Recent advances in the study of fish eggs and larvae. Scientia Marina 70S2 (Supplement 2): 1-174. (ISSN: 0214-8358).
Now Available! Announcing the second edition of Guide to Catostomid fish larvae. The revised and expanded second edition of D.E. Snyder and R.T. Muth’s guide to catostomid fish larvae of the Upper Colorado River Basin has been published as Colorado Division of Wildlife Technical Publication 42. For more information click here.
Now Available! The Development of Form and Function in Fishes and the Question of Larval Adaptation. Edited by: John Jeffrey Govoni
This book, the proceedings of a symposium held at the 26th Annual Larval Fish Conference of the Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society, in Bergen, Norway presents current thought that reflects upon the following questions: when and in what capacity do developing organs or organ systems come on line, and more importantly, are these organs and their functions specializations unique to embryos and larvae or are they simply rudimentary functional anlage of the adult form? For the complete table of contents, and ordering information, click on the link above.
Available Online! Proceedings of the 26th Annual Larval Fish Conference - The Big Fish Bang. Edited by: Howard I. Browman and Anne Berit Skiftesvik.
FISHERY SCIENCE The Unique Contributions of Early Life Stages. edited by Lee A. Fuiman and Robert G. Werner.
This outstanding text, edited by two of our own and with contributions by many ELHS members, was produced with financial support provided by ELHS. It offers a unique and valuable perspective on all the major topics in traditional fishery science by addressing the role and importance of early life stages. More information on the book and where you can order your own copy is available here.
Otolith Manual Now Available Online:
In 1991 Dave Secor, John Dean and Betsy Laban published the Manual for Otolith Removal and Preparation for Microstructural Examination. This publication is out of print but still in demand, so Dave has secured copyright permission and has posted the Otolith Manual on his website as a pdf file. You will also find a link to it on our Other ELH Links page for future reference.
Northeast Pacific Ichthyoplankton Information System (IIS) The new NortheastPacific Ichthyoplankton Information System (IIS) has recently been completed and is now available on line at http://access.afsc.noaa.gov/ichthyo/index.cfm . This website is a consolidation of a larval fish guide and recently published distribution atlas, and provides access to data on the early life history (ELH) of fishes collected by the Recruitment Processes Program of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
The IIS functions in 2 modes, a taxonomic search and a character search. The taxonomic search allows users to view illustrations, meristics, information on ELH, and distribution and abundance maps. The character search helps you to identify an unknown specimen using meristic and pigment searches. In addition, the site presents useful interactive links to FishBase and LarvalBase, the University of Washington's Fish Collection, and other ELH sources. The IIS offers a complete bibliography of early life history literature and provides the data used to make the distribution maps. Currently, data and maps are available for about 1/3 of the taxa on the site.
In the future, the database will be available with an option for downloading the latest data files in PDF format. We welcome and encourage any questions or comments. Please contact any of the IIS team for this project: Debbie Blood, Ann Matarese, or Bill Rugen.
316B Project Information from Darrel Snyder With the upstart of many new 316B Projects, there are a lot of folks out there looking for larval fish identification guides. I recommend to most folks in the east and midwest the Ohio River volumes (1990, 1994, 2004, so far) and Auer's 1982 Great Lakes volume.
Electronic versions of Auer's Great lakes guide can be downloaded from
http://www.glfc.org/pubs/pub.htm#pubs (select Special Publication 82-3).
Click here. for the order form for the Ohio River Basin volumes.
Jeff Buckel, ELHS webmaster
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North Carolina State University
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Updated January 10, 2009