Newsletters

Spring 2024 (PDF 15 MB)

• Note from the Chairs
• News and upcoming events
• Key Fish Species Identification in Central Asian Mountain Rivers for the Environmental Impact Assessment of Intensified Hydropower by Bakhtiyor Karimov et al
• The Role of Conservation Aquaculture in the Recovery of an Endangered Arctic Char Population in Llyn Padarn, N. Wales by  John Taylor
• Cooperation is the key to the future of northern platyfish in Mexico by Markéta Rejlková
• The status of fish from the type localities in unique Melaleuca cajuputi swamp forest by Mohamad Aqmal-Naser and Amirrudin Ahmad
• Museums build Better Barcode Libraries by Evan W. Hessels and Nathan K. Lujan
• A leap forward for Turkish Freshwater Fish: the recent IUCN Assessment by Mahir Kanyılmaz
• The freshwater fish flagship species of the “Vietnamazing” EAZA Conservation Campaign 2025 by  T. Ziegler et al
• Callout for more submissions

May 2023 (PDF 5 MB)

• FFSG Website Update
• What’s New
• Congratulations to Professor Rajeev Raghavan!
• Bioinventory in high gear: DNA barcoding of types and topotypes to advance
• biodiscovery and taxonomy of southern Africa’s freshwater fish fauna by Albert Chakona
• Uncovering Fish Biodiversity in the Greater Amazon, the genus Rhinotocinclus by Roberto E. Reis and Pablo Lehmann
• Beyond the global Mexican freshwater fish assessment by Topiltzin Contreras

May 2017 (PDF 5 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Update on Regional Chairs, Special Advisors, Steering Committee members ….
• Presentations on Freshwater Conservation to Leaders of Chinese Philanthropic Organizations, March 6, 2017
• Celebrate World Fish Migration Day, on April 21, 2018
• Are You publishing Descriptions of New Species? – then read this
• Sports Stadium moved for an Endangered Loach, but Conservation Concerns still Remain – a Report from Japan
•  Call for Knowledge Development and Dissemination on Migratory Fishes in Africa
• An Update on the Status of Autochthonous Freshwater Fishes in Tunisian Reservoirs
• Wonders of the Mekong: a New Mekong Project led by FFSG Steering Committee Member, Dr. Zeb Hogan
• Reinstatement of the Brazilian List of Endangered Aquatic Species
• Trip of a Lifetime, to the Amazon and the Rio Negro Fishery
• To Manage Inland Fisheries is to Manage at the Social-Ecological Watershed Scale

October 2017 (PDF 5 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Regional Chairs, Special Advisors, Steering Committee Members…
• FFSG Member Issah Seidu receives MBZ Funding
• FFSG Subgroup Chair Scott Dowd nominated for 2018 Indianapolis Prize …
• FFSG at the 2017 European Union of Aquarium Curators
• Red List Assessments – and ‘Inferring Extinctions’
• Charismatic Freshwater Megafauna
• Areas of Conservation Connectivity
• Rainforest Trust – Freshwater Sites for Protected Areas
• Tigerfish Monitoring in the Kavango River, Namibia
• The National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project – An Adventurous Trail of Discovery
• Exotic vs. Native Species Conservation: An Old Dilemma at the South of the World
• Fish Taxonomy Training in Bhutan
• A World Bank Project on Sustainable Hydropower Development in the Kingdom of Bhutan
• Summary of the American Fisheries Society Symposium on Inland Fisheries
• Summary of the Alliance for Freshwater Life Meeting, Berlin, 9-11 October
• Journal of Fish Biology: Special Issue on Biology and Ecology of African Freshwater Fishes
• IUCN One Programme Strategy for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

May 2016 (PDF 2.5 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• In Memoriam: Richard P. Vari
• FFSG Steering Committee gives Ted x talks
• Sundaic Freshwater Fish IUCN Red List Workshop
• FFSG at the North East Council of Aquarium Societies
• World Fish Migration Day, May 21, 2016
• Fisheries and aquaculture research in Kazakhstan
• FFSG Member for Central Asia, Dr. Serik Timirkhanov receives award for work on Sturgeon
• The Great Maya Aquifer Project
• Conservation of Salmo cettii and Anguilla Anguilla: different needs and perspectives in Sardinia, Italy
• Assessing the status of a recently discovered endemism from the floodplains of the lower Tagus River (western Iberian Peninsula)
• Fish passes developed into the context of the LIFE+ SEGURA RIVERLINK project
• Population status of freshwater fish in Tunisian reservoirs
• Project Fartet, Barcelona (2007-2013): a case of conflicting interests
• Fishy Shades of Grey: The weird & wonderful Sundaic Freshwater Fishes
• Positive effects of biodiversity on inland capture fishery yields
• Videos of CEPF Western Ghats Program

October 2016 (PDF 2.5 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• 2016 Living Planet Report published: an urgent call to action for Freshwater Biodiversity
• Welcoming a new SSC Chair
• SSC Membership Renewal
• New Publication – The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Tropical Andes
• Supplement Issue on Freshwater Protected Areas in a Rapidly Changing World
• FFSG Input to Projects on Lost Species and Protected Areas
• World Fish Migration Day, May 21, 2016
• Proposed Construction of 20 New Dams threatens Newly Discovered Biodiversity in Northern Peru’s Marañon River
• Never too Young to learn
• IUCN Water/IUCN Species Freshwater Dialogue Series at the 2016 World Conservation Congress, Hawai’i
• A Late Motion on Freshwater submitted at World Conservation Congress, Hawai’i

March 2015 (PDF 4.9 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• FFSG represented at Citizen Science conference 2015
• Passing of Freshwater Fish Legend Rosemary Lowe-McConnell
• FFSG welcomes two new Regional Co-Chairs
• FFSG Members co-author WCPA Book on Protected Area Governance and Management
• HAFSG Chair leads Expedition to study Brazilian Ornamental Fisheries
• New Paper on the Huchen Hucho hucho in the Balkan Region
• Monster Fish Exhibit launches at National Geographic Museum
• Conservation on California’s Endangered Freshwater Fish Fauna
• Water and Wetlands in the Eastern Mediterranean – Critical for People and Biodiversity
• Nandus nandus – going toward Extirpation
• Searching for Cave Fish in Turkmenistan
• The Golden Barb of Golden Dwarf Barb – an ideal Aquarium Fish with Commercial Importance to Fisheries
• Sate of Wetland Biodiversity in the Mekong Basin
• Battle for Endemism

August 2015 (PDF 5.3 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Gordon McGregor Reid – 2015 LeCren medalist of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles
• New Publication – History of Zoos and Aquariums: From Royal Gifts to Biodiversity Conservation
• Vishwanath Waikhom Receives the EK Janaki Ammal National Award for Taxonomy
• Steven Cooke Receives the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship
• FFSG Welcomes Two New Regional Co-Chairs
• HAFSG Chair Leads Strategic Development Meeting at Aquarama 2015
• New Publication – The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Arabian Peninsula
• Endangered Native Fishes Re-colonize a South African River After the Removal of Smallmouth Bass
• Hidden In a Lost Swamp
• Between A Rock and A Hard Place: The Plight of the Border Barb
• Freshwater Fishes and Lampreys of Greece: A Brand New Annotated checklist
• Wetland International Releases Its 10-year Strategy to Safeguard and Restore Wetlands
• Successful reintroduction of the “Carpita de Morelos” Notropis boucardi in Chapultepec preotected area in Morelos, Mexico
• Red List Assessment of the Freshwater Fishes of the Arabian Peninsula

March 2014 (PDF 32 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Welcome to the new Global Chair, Dr Richard Schneider
• Changes to the FFSG Secretariat
• Professor Gordon McGregor Reid awarded the IUCN SC Chair’s Citation of Excellence
• New Global Freshwater Fish BioBlitz to monitor Fish Species with the help of “Citizen Scientists”
• Introducing FFSG Regions: South America
• IUCN Red List Assessments of Freshwater Fishes of the Tropical Andes
• Brazilian Action Plans for Freshwater Fishes
• UK’s Rarest Freshwater Fish “reappears”
• In Search of the Mangarahara Cichlid
• A Community-Led Fish Sanctuary Initiative on Hainan Island, China
• Killifishes on the Edge
• What to do if there is no more Water? Conservation of Aphanius sirhani, the Azraq Killifish
• Tilting at Windmills: Conservation of Valencia hispanica
• A Critically Endangered Freshwater Fish Species of North Africa likely to be Extinct in the Wild
• Aphanius farsicus might be Extinct in the Wild
• Conservation action for the Aci Göl toothcarp, Aphanius transgrediens
• Southern African tigerfish population learns to actively predate on swallows on the wing
• Tackling giants: getting the most out of working groups for freshwater fish conservation

June 2014 (PDF 1.2 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Changes to the Secretariat
• Zoological Society of London supports the FFSG
• Publication of the ASSG IUCN Red List Assessments: The First Step towards the Coordinated, International Conservation of Freshwater Eels
• World Fish Migration Day Follow-Up
• NatureServe becomes Partner in Flogal Freshwater Bioblitz
• Assessing the Vulnerability of Freshwater Fishes to Climate Change
• The LIFE + SEGURA RIVERLINK Project
• Halting the Loss of Biodiversity – the Huchen in the Danube
• Almost all Freshwater Fish Species of the Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot barcoded
• New Valencia from Greece: Likely to be Critically Endangered and a High Ranked EDGE Species
• Back from the Dead – Acanthobrama talvivensis returns to Nature
• Updates from Manipur: The International Symposium on River Biodiversity

September 2014 (PDF 7.6 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• FFSG welcomes New Region
• FFSG 2013 Annual Report now available
• The River Bank Fundraising Project
• Bridging Biodiversity and Ecosystems Focus to New Book
• South Asian Regional Update
• Aquarium Fishes of the Rio Negro gain “Geographic Indication” Status
• UN Watercourse Convention
• Native Fishes of the Colorado River
• Hill Stream Fishes of Chindwin Headwaters in Northeastern India – New Discoveries and their Fate
• Conservation Milestone reaches in Asian Taimen Conservation
• CMS Science Council Meeting
• The Status of Eels in Japan
• Evaluating the Ecological, Economic and Cultural Services provided by Freshwater Fishes in Centra Kalimantan, Indonesia
• The Debate surrounding Dam Destruction: A Review of the Searsville Dam of Stanford, California

March 2013 (PDF 8.49 MB)

• FFSG Programme Officer Temporary Personnel Change
• FFSG Annual Meeting 2014
• Introducing FFSG Regions: Southwest Asia
• Iraqi Endemic Cave Fishes on the very Edge:  Typhlogarra widdowsoni and Caecocypris basimi
• Positive Steps for Conservation of the Vendace (Coregonus albula), the UK’s rarest Freshwater Fish
• From Sea to Source – An International Movement for the Restoration of Fish Migratory Highways
• A European Hotspot Biodiversity – from CR to Extinct in the Wild
• Freshwater Fish Assessments planned for Peru

June 2013 (PDF 2 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Save the Date: FFSG Annual Meeting 2014
• WANTED: High Quality Images for FFSG Website
• Bridging the Gap: Engaging the Public in Freshwater Fish Conservation
• Introducing FFSG Regions: Southern Africa
• Fiji Freshwater Fish graces new 1—Dollar Bill: Bringing Freshwater Fish into the Popular Consciousness
• Activities of the South Asia Office of the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group (September 2012 to April 2013)
• Towards an “Exotic Fish” free Periyar Tiger Reserve
• New Fish Species described in 2012-2013 from South Asia
• First Comprehensive Red List  Workshop for all Freshwater Fishes of the Middle East
• Kinabatangan River Spirit Initiative, Malaysia

October 2013 (PDF 3 MB)

• Message from the FFSG Global Chair
• Thank you to Gordon McGregor Reid: A Colleague, a Leader, a Friend
• Online now: New FFSG Website
• Clarifying the IUCN Red List Review Process for Freshwater Fishes
• Introducing the FFSG European Region
• IUCN Red List Workshop for Freshwater Eels
• Queensland’s Endangered Gobies
• Conservation of Threatened Endemic Fish Species of the Cape Floristic Region Biodiversity Hotspot
• Drafting IUCN Red List Assessments for Iranian Freshwater Fishes
• World Fish Migration Day 2014

December 2012 (PDF 1.14 MB)

• The IUCN World Conservation Congress: End of 2009-2012 Quadrennium
• Beginning of New Quadrennium 2013-1016: Appointment of New Regional Chairs
• Introducing FFSG Regions: South Asia
• An Award for a Distinguished FFSG Member : Prof Paul Skelton
• Priceless or Worthless includes Five Freshwater Fish!
• Tiny Fish, Big Trouble: Australia’s Red-finned Blue-eye battles for Survival
• Historic Meeting held on the Danube Salmon (Hucho hucho): The Largest Salmon in the World
• Reintroduction of the European Catfish (Silurus glanis)

July 2008 (PDF 397 KB)

• Assessment of freshwater fish diversity and ecology: Azerbaijan-Russian joint expedition 2008
• Central African freshwater fish biodiversity workshop
• Cryopreservation and cryo-banking of somatic cells, gametes and embryos of fish
• In the news – British angler catches rare giant freshwater stingray
• Waternetwork – a contact tool for water professionals
• Expo2008 – the World’s biggest water festival