Chinese Fishes
This book documents the current state of research by Chinese scientists on fish biology and fisheries and brings together manuscripts by authors from research institutions, universities and government agencies. There are papers on aquaculture, life h
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Introducing China David L. G. Noakes
Received: 4 January 2009 / Accepted: 18 January 2009 / Published online: 28 January 2009 # Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2009
The many historical sites, and even the popular tourist locations, proved to be necessary and informative as part of the larger context. One thing was clear to me. There had to be a special volume of Environmental Biology of Fishes devoted to papers from colleagues in China, to let them present their research to the international scientific community. Suzanne Mekking, our Publisher at Springer, had recently been to China for her own first visit. She enthusiastically supported my idea for the dedicated volume on China, and so it grew from there. I contacted those colleagues I had met in China and encouraged them to develop and deliver manuscripts. I had recently added Professor Yingqi Zhou to our Advisory Editorial Board. He agreed to join me as a Co-Editor of the China Volume and he immediately began contacting his colleagues, solicited manuscripts, and co-authored his own contributions. As chance would have it, another of our Advisory Editors, Aldemero Romero, contacted me in 2006 and asked if I would be interested in a special issue of Environmental Biology of Fishes devoted to the incredible story of hypogean fishes in China, to be put together by him and his colleague, Yahui Zhao. I immediately informed him of the ongoing China volume and incorporated their hypogean proposal. We solicited manuscripts, reviewed and edited them and now we present the volume, like an elaborate scientific banquet (Fig. 7). We have brought together manuscripts by authors from research institutions, universities and
For many years I have told my students that the answer to any question is “China”. There is, of course, more than a grain of truth in that assertion. But for a country with a recorded history of 4,000 years and a current population of more than one billion people this might seem little more than mere probability. I first visited China in 2005 and could see for myself the truth of that statement. Chinese colleagues I met at the World Fisheries Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2004 arranged everything for me. I visited universities, research institutions, museums and aquaculture facilities. I gave lectures to groups of eager students and senior colleagues. I was hosted graciously everywhere I traveled, including Beijing (Figs. 1a, b, c), the Great Wall (Fig. 2), the Ming Tombs (Fig. 3), Wuhan (Fig. 4), the Chang Jiang River (Fig. 5) and the Three Gorges Project (Fig. 6). The kindness, generosity and courage of my hosts, the unbridled enthusiasm of the students and the enormity of the teaching and research activity on fishes and fish biology overwhelmed me.
D. L. G. Noakes (*) Fisheries and Wildlife Department, Oregon Hatchery Research Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3803, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Environ Biol Fish (2009) 86:1–9 Fig. 1 a My colleague and guide in China, Jianz
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