Kazuki Yokouchi

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Kazuki Yokouchi, Ph.D.

Lead Scientist of the Fisheries-Ecosystems Group, FRI, FRA

Educations & Employments

Degree

2010.3 Ph.D. (Fisheries Ecology), The University of Tokyo, Japan

Employment / Research abroad

2005.8-9. Visiting Researcher, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

2010.4 – 2012.3. Researcher (Agri-Bioscience), Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan

2010.7 – 2011.12. Post-doctoral Researcher, Cemagref / Irstea, Bordeaux, France

2012.4 – 2014.6. JSPS Research Fellow, Institute for East China Sea Research, Nagasaki University,

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan

2013.4 – 2015.3. Visiting Scientist, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan

2014.6 – 2014.12. Assistant Professor, Center for International Collaborative Research, Nagasaki University, Japan

2015.1 – 2016.3. Scientist, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science /

National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan

2016.4 – 2018.3. Scientist, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science,

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

2018.1, 2019.3. Visiting Scientist, Irstea, Bordeaux, France

2018.4 – 2019.3. Senior Scientist, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science,

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

2019.4 – 2020.7. Senior Scientist, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science,

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

2020.7 – 2024.3. Senior Scientist, Fisheries Resources Institute,

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

2024.4 – Lead Scientist of the Fisheries-Ecosystems Group, Fisheries Resources Institute,

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan

Fellowships, Grants & Awards

Award

2009.8. Student Travel Awards, The 4th International Otolith Symposium, Monterey, California, USA.

2015.3. 2014 Award of Excellence, in Fisheries Science, Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, Tokyo, Japan.

"Yokouchi, K., Y. Kaneko, K. Kaifu, J. Aoyama, K. Uchida & K. Tsukamoto. (2014). Demographic survey of the yellow-phase Japanese eel Anguilla japonica in Japan. Fisheries Science 80: 543-554. DOI: 10.1007/s12562-014-0735-9"

2024.4. Top Cited Articles 2022-2023 in Animal Conservation, Wiley.

"Yokouchi, K., H. Itakura, R. Wakiya, T. Yoshinaga, N. Mochioka, S. Kimura & K. Kaifu. (2022). Cumulative effects of low-height barriers on distributions of catadromous Japanese eels in Japan. Animal Conservation 25: 137-149. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12725. Tweet @AnimalConserv. "

Fellowship

2008.9 – 2009.3; 2009.8 – 2010.1. Support Grant for Doctoral Research Conduct, Department of Aquatic Bioscience, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Research Grants

2007.6 – 2008.6. 19-1215-008 The River Fund in charge of the Foundation of River and Watershed Environment Management, Japan.

2009.8. Academic Research Grant Program (International), The University of Tokyo, Japan.

2010.7 – 2011.12 (Unit member). "Concepts et outils pour la mise en place des plans de gestion de l’anguille" Le contrat de plan Etat-Région (CPER) de la Aquitaine, France

2012.4 – 2014.6. Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2013.4 – 2015.3. Research commission of the Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

2014.4 – 2016.3. Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2014 – 2015 (分担）Research commission on the Conservation of the Japanese eel, the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

2015.4 – 2019.3 (分担）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Overseas Academic Research), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2016.7 – 2019.3 (分担）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Generative Research Fields), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2020.4 – 2024.3 (分担）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2021.4 – (分担）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2022.5 – (分担）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Transformative Research Areas (B) Organizer, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2022.5 – (代表）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Transformative Research Areas (B) Planned Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

2024.4 – (分担）Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan.

Society, Review & Teaching

Society / Working group

Japanese Society of Fisheries Science (JSFS)

Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography (JSFO)

Société Franco-japonaise d'océanographie

East Asia Eel Society (EASEC) *2017~ Board member

ICES Workshop on Age Reading of European and American Eel (WKAREA2)

ICES Workshop on the Development of a Spatial Database and Model for Eel (WKSMEEL)

Review

Aquatic Biology ; Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ;

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences ; Coastal Marine Science ;

Communications Earth & Environment ;

Ecology of Freshwater Fish ; Environmental Biology of Fishes ;

Fish and Fisheries ; Fisheries Oceanography ; Fisheries Science ;

Freshwater Biology ; Heliyon ; ICES Journal of Marine Science ;

Ichthyological Research ; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ;

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ;

Marine Policy ; Regional Studies in Marine Science ; Scientific Reports ;

Water ; Zoological Studies ;

(Japanese)

Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanography ;

Aquaculture Science ; Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi

Convener

2015.3.31. The JSFS Early Career Scientists Section Symposium: International Collaborations of Early Career Scientists on the Fisheries Science, Shinagawa Campus, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

2018.7.8. 東アジア鰻学会公開シンポジウム「うな丼の未来VI:世界の中のニホンウナギ」東京大学弥生キャンパス

2021.9.1. Research Meeting in Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo「For Establishing ‘Marine Ecological Chronology’: Interdisciplinary approach from Geochemistry, Numerical modeling, and Ecology」Kashiwa Campus, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo.

2024.6.29. 東アジア鰻学会公開シンポジウム「うな丼の未来11: 改めて考える、ウナギを増やすために私たちは何ができるのか」東京大学弥生キャンパス

Lecture

2012.8.6. 17th Open seminar for the Evolutionary Ecology (Evolutionary & Behavioral Ecology Lab., Graduate School of Fisheries Science and Environmental Studies, Nagasaki Univ., Invited speaker)

2012.9.29. Lecture for UNA Exhibition (4th Tokyo International Science Festival: TISF2012, No.76, Invited lecturer)

2013.5.24. Migration, dispersal and life history of endemic fishes in the Ariake Bay (Theme lecture, SSH project for Nagasaki South High School)

2013.10.13. Lecture for 11th NAGASAKI Fisheries Festival ("Story of the great journey of the eel from rivers to the sea", Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute)

2016.10.18, 2017.10.17, 2022.10.11, 2023.10.10. Conservation and sustainable use of the eel "Eels as organisms: Migration" (lecture, Chuo University)

総合教育科目「ウナギの保全と持続的利用生物としてのウナギ：回遊生態」（講義中央大学非常勤講師）

2018.3.5「川のウナギと浜名湖のウナギ」静岡県浜名湖地区水産振興協議会（講演）

2018.5.22「河川から内湾に生息するニホンウナギの生態と柔軟性」愛知県一色うなぎ漁業協同組合研究会（講演）

2018 ~. 出前授業（江東区立東陽小学校；江東区立川南小学校；新宿区立四谷第六小学校）

2022.5.17, 2022.7.12, 2023.5.9, 2024.5.7. Sustainable use of fisheries resources Aquatic Biology3: Methods for fisheries ecology (lecture, Chuo University)

総合教育科目「水産資源の持続的利用水圏生物３：資源生態の調査方法」（講義中央大学非常勤講師）

2023.11.7.「天然水域における放流由来のウナギは産卵回遊するか？」鹿児島県ウナギ資源増殖対策協議会（講演）

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