1st Scientific Meeting on Japanese Eel and Other Relevant Eels to be held, and Professor Hakoyama and Professor Faulks from IFB, Nagano University to give lectures

The 1st Scientific Meeting on Japanese Eel and Other Relevant Eels will be held on April 13-14, 2022, hosted by the Fisheries Agency. This scientific meeting will be held as agreed at the Informal Consultation on International Conservation and Management of Eel Resources (Informal Consultation) and will be attended by eel researchers from Japan, China, Korea, Chinese Taipei and Europe. Professor Hiroshi Hakoyama and Professor Leanne Faulks from Nagano University will each give a presentation and discuss future international collaborative research.

Leanne Faulks, Researcher/Guest Associate Professor at Institute of Freshwater Biology, Nagano University, leanne-faulks@nagano.ac.jp “Inferring the Demographic History of Japanese Eel (Anguilla japonica) from Genomic Data: Insights for Conservation and Fisheries Management”

Hiroshi Hakoyama, Director of Center (Professor) at Institute of Freshwater Biology, Nagano University, hiroshi-hakoyama@nagano.ac.jp “Impacts of the Kuroshio Current on the annual fluctuation of the glass eel recruitment to Japan”