The 2023 (58th) Annual Meeting of the Ichthyological Society of Japan (ISJ) will be held as an on-site meeting at Bunkyo Campus, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, from 1–4 September, 2023.

1. The presenter must be an individual member (regular, student, foreign or sustaining) of ISJ, having paid a membership fee for the 2023 fiscal year (i.e., from 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2024) for the new ISJ as a general incorporated association.
2. Participants may apply for either an oral or a poster presentation.
3. The oral presenters have 15 minutes in total (including ca. three minutes for the question and answer session) for their presentation. The presenters can use either a PowerPoint or PDF file. Movies are conditionally acceptable with PowerPoint.
4. The oral presenters cannot use their personal computers—the computers (Win) prepared by the organizing committee must be used. The oral presenters must operate PowerPoint or Acrobat by themselves—the organizing committee does not operate them.
5. The oral presenters must copy the data from their PowerPoint/PDF file onto the computers in the venue using a USB flash memory drive or similar device. The file name of PowerPoint/PDF should be: “Register number of presentation” and “presenter’s name” connected by a hyphen, followed by the file extension (e.g., 012-Toyotomi.pptx, 012-Toyotomi.ppt or 012-Toyotomi.pdf).
6. The size of on-site posters should not exceed 85 cm in width and 175 cm in height. Thumbtacks and other fixtures will be prepared by the organizing committee. The posters should be set up in the designated space during the forenoon of 2 September and presented for two days (2–3 September). The title and the author’s name and affiliation should be clearly displayed in the uppermost portion of the poster.
7. The odd-numbered and even-numbered on-site posters should be attended by the presenters on 2 and 3 September, respectively, during the “core time” (13:30–14:30). The oral session will not be held during this period.
8. The registered number of presentations will be communicated to the participants by the organizing committee after the application deadline has passed.
9. No photography, recording, or copying of the presentations is allowed.

If you are a foreign student in Japan, your supervisor should register your participation using your name (in your place) via an internet registration system for the ISJ meeting (in Japanese). When your supervisor registers on your behalf, please remember to describe the name of the supervisor in the remarks column of the registration system. Otherwise, please send the application form (click here for download) to the representative of the organizing committee (Dr. Takeshi Takegaki; isj-nenkai2023@fish-isj.jp) by e-mail.

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Deadline for application for participation and presentation: 29 June 2023, 17:00 (JST, GMT+9:00).

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Deadline for application for participation only: 1 August 2022, 17:00 (JST, GMT+9:00).

(Deadlines are the same as those for Japanese participants)

Participants who wish to present their studies must send an English abstract to the organizing committee. If you are a foreign student in Japan (individual member of ISJ), your supervisor should send it in your place via the internet registration system. Otherwise (foreign member), please send it by e-mail to (isj-nenkai2023@fish-isj.jp). In either case, the abstract must be sent upon application for participation, for which the deadline is 29 June 2023. The English abstract will be included in the 2023 Annual Meeting Abstracts (in Japanese with English titles and authors’ names), which can be downloaded from the ISJ member website from mid-August. The style of the English abstract should be in accordance with the following:

1. If the presentation includes two or more authors, the presenter should be marked by an asterisk.
2. The author’s name should be followed by their affiliation in parentheses.
3. TThe title, the author’s name and affiliation, and the main text should be provided on separate lines, with a single empty line in between.
4. TThe following tags are available:
   a. italic: <I>character</I>
   b. superscript: <SUP>character</SUP>
   c. subscript: <SUB>character</SUB>
5. The character limit of the abstract, including the title and the author names and affiliations is 1504 (i.e., 94 characters by 16 lines). Please note that the empty lines are included in the character counts.

<Example>

A new species of the coelacanth genus <i> Latimeria </i> from Osaka Bay, Japan.

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Doton Yasui (Dotonbori Aquarium) and Hideyoshi Toyotomi (Osaka Castle Univ.)

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In recent years, many new species of fish have been discovered around the world. An undiscribed species of the coelacanth genus <i> Latimeria </i> was captured by hook-and-line from Osaka Bay, Japan.

Conference fees for participants: ¥4,500 per person (¥2,500 for students); fees for participants without registration in advance: ¥5,500 per person (¥3,500 for students)
Abstracts: ¥2,000 per copy
Banquet: ¥8,000 per person

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Banquet can be joined by only those who have applied in advance.

If you register by submitting the application form via e-mail, please pay the fees directly to the reception desk on 2 September. If you use the internet registration system, please remit the fees to the ISJ’s account (provided upon inquiry) before 10 July (for presenters) or 11 August (for non-presenters).

Two symposiums entitled “The Siebold's fish collection and his diary of the court journey to Edo” and “Basic concept and recent trends of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)” will be held on 4 September.

If you have any questions, please contact the representative of the organizing committee by e-mail.
isj-nenkai2023@fish-isj.jp
Dr. Takeshi Takegaki
Nagasaki University