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?
Workshop Announcement: A workshop on "Understanding and quantifying mortality in fish early-life stages: experiments, observations and models" (WKMOR) will take place on 22-24 March 2010 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Further information about the meeting can be found here.
Larval Fish Conference Information: The 34th Larval Fish Conference will be held 30 May - 3 June 2010 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Abstract submission and registration open 4 January 2010. Further information about the meeting can be found here.
The 33rd Larval Fish Conference was held 22-27 July 2009 in Portland, Oregon, USA. Further information about the meeting can be found below.
2009 Sally Richardson Award:
The twenty-fourth annual Sally Richardson award for the best student paper presented at the 33rd Early Life History Annual Meeting was given in Portland, Oregon, USA July 2009.
Congratulations to Kelton McMahon, winner of the 2009 Sally Leonard Richardson Award for the best student paper. The title of Kelton's presentation was "Patterns in Carbon Isotope Fractionation of Amino Acids Between Diet and Consumer in a Model Fish Species” Co-authors Marilyn Fogel, Travis Elsdon, and Simon Thorrold. Kelton is with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States.
Honorable mention went to Yuichi Fukunishi
Yuichi's presentation was entitled, "Comparison of UV-B Tolerance among Wild and Hatchery-reared Juveniles in Black Sea Bream (Acanthopagrus schlegel) and Red Sea Bream (Pagrus major)"
Co-authors Reiji Masuda, Dominique Robert, and Yoh Yamashita coauthors, Maizuru Fisheries Research Station, Field Science Education And Research Center, Nagahama, Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan.
2009 J.H.S. Blaxter Award:
Congratulations to Klaus Huebert, winner of the 2009 John H.S. Blaxter Award for the best student poster presented at the 33rd Larval Fish Conference, Portland, Oregon July 2009. Klaus' poster, entitled "Effects of Vertical Migrations by Pelagic Reef Fish Larvae on Larval
Transport”, was co-authored by Su Sponaugle and Robert Cowen from the University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States.
Honorable mention went to Shin Nakayama
Shin's poster was entitled “Habitat competition among young red drum”. Kenneth Rose and Lee Fuiman were co-authors. Shin is at the University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute Port Aransas, Texas
Congratulations to these four for an excellent job, and a hearty thanks to all the students who presented talks and posters and to all the people who judged them.
STAGES ONLINE:
The February 2009 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
PUBLICATIONS
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North Carolina State University
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Updated October 22, 2009