Conference Organizing Committee     Shugo Watabe, Chair Toshio Takeuchi, Vice-chair Toshihiko Matsusato, Vice-chair Shuichi Satoh, Secretariat General Members: Hiroki Abe Takashi Aoki Takafumi Arimoto Ken Furuya Kiyoshi Inouye Kyoichi Tamai Katsumi Tsukamoto Tadashi Tokai Kohei Yamauchi Secretaries: Ikuo Hirono Tadafumi Ichikawa Shoichiro Ishizaki Toyoji Kaneko Tomohiko Kawamura Ryuji Kuwahara Ichiro Nakayama Yoshihiro Ochiai Shigeru Okada Koichi Okuzawa Hirofumi Shimizu Carlos A.Strussmann Hiroshi Yokoyama Goro Yoshizaki      Executive Board of World Council of Fisheries Societies     Fumio Takashima, President Barbara Knuth, Vice-President Gus Rassam, Secretariat General -The American Fisheries Society (AFS) Barbara Knuth, Representing Jennifer Nielsen (Alternate) -Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) Daniel Gaughan, Representing Kim Smith (Alternate) -The Fisheries Society of The British Isles (FSBI) John Thorpe, Representing -Indian Society of Fisheries Professionals (ISFP) M.P. Singh Kohli, Representing -The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (JSFS) Katsumi Aida, Representing Shugo Watabe (Alternate) -The Zoological Society of Pakistan (ZSP) A.R. Shakoori, Representing        International Steering Committee     -The American Fisheries Society (AFS) Barbara Knuth Gus Rassam -Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) Tony Fowler Daniel Gaughan -The Fisheries Society of The British Isles (FSBI) Inigo Everson -Indian Society of Fisheries Professionals (ISFP) Kiran Dube P.Singh Kohli -The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (JSFS) Fumio Takashima Shugo Watabe -The Zoological Society of Pakistan (ZSP) A.R.Shakoori      Steering Committee   Katsumi Aida, Chair Fumio Takashima Nobuhiro Fusetani Toshihiko Matsusato Masaru Tanaka Akira Taniguchi Shugo Watabe Kohei Yamauchi      International Program Committee   -The American Fisheries Society (AFS) Doug Beard Howard Browman John Casselman -Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) Tony Fowler Daniel Gaughan -The Fisheries Society of The British Isles (FSBI) Inigo Everson Michel Kaiser -Indian Society of Fisheries Professionals (ISFP) Gopalkrishna B.B.Naik Lalit P. Chaudhari -The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (JSFS) Takafumi Arimoto Ken Furuya Toyoji Kaneko Yoshihiro Ochiai Hirofumi Shimizu -The Zoological Society of Pakistan (ZSP) Muhammad Naeem Khan      Local Program Committee     Ken Furuya, Chair Takafumi Arimoto, Vice-chair Toyoji Kaneko, Secretariat Yoshihiro Ochiai, Secretariat Hirofumi Shimizu, Secretariat Hideomi Amano Masashi Ando Takashi Aoki Katsutoshi Arai Kimio Fukami Atsushi Hagiwara Takashi Hirata Kohji Iida Takaji Iida Ichiro Imai Yutaka Itabashi Hirohiko Kagawa Hidehiro Kato Akihiro Kijima Shuichi Kitada Kazuhiro Kogure Nobutake Koiwa Shunsuke Koshio Hisashi Kurokura Mitsutaku Makino Hiroyuki Matsuda Yoshiaki Matsuda Tatsuro Matsuoka Michiya Matsuyama Takehiko Ogata Emiko Okazaki Shinya Otake Hiroaki Saito Harumi Sakai Sho Tanaka Toru Taniuchi Tadashi Tokai Haruhiko Toyohara Yoshiro Watanabe Marcy Wilder Tamiji Yamamoto Masahiro Yamao Akihiro Yatsu     to the top