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■ All Japan Citizens Network for Control of the Blackbass issued an opinion document addressing the Cabinet's reply to the interpellation regarding control of the blackbass by Sen. Yukiko Kada at the upper house. (go to another web site) New!! Our association contributed to its drafting/reviewing process. ■ No-Bass Network News Magazine 11 was issued (March, 2024). (go to another web site) Our association contributed to its editorial process. ■ We set signboards up telling outlaw bassers would come to angling after illegal blackbass stocking at five agricultural ponds where the clandestine acts suspected/foreseen in Kurihara and Tome, Miyagi. (April, 2024). ■ Fish Story Magazine “Botejako” 28 was issued (March, 2024). ■ We drained a pond in Kurihara, Miyagi, Japan off for eradication of the blackbass (November, 2023). ■ No-Bass Network News Magazine 10 was issued. (go to another web site) Our association contributed to its editorial process. ■ No-Bass Network News Magazine 9 was issued. (go to another web site) Our association contributed to its editorial process. ■ Co-hosted 76th Fish Natural History Meeting at Tokyo (March, 2023). (go to another web site) ■ Fish Story Magazine “Botejako” 27 was issued (March, 2023). ■ A request for alert on illegal stocking of blackbass to newly constructed dams was issued by the All Japan Citizens Network for Control of the Balckbass (No-Bass Network) (July 4, 2022). (go to another web site) Our association took part in drafting the request and contacting the dam-operating authorities. ■ A Short Paper was Published on Clandestine Stocking of an Endangered Bitterling Acheilognathus typus (June 25, 2022). ■ Fish Story Magazine “Botejako” 26 was issued (March, 2022). ■ A research article was published on control of the invasive largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides (November 15, 2021). ■ We are going to draw-down ponds for blackbass eradication in Kurihara, Miyagi, Japan (September, 2021). ■ A research article was published on illegal restocking of the blackbass suspected after eradication (June 30, 2021). ■ A short report was published on the world northen-most record of semi-aquatic annual fern Ceratopteris (June 30, 2021). ■ A short review paper was published on restoration of an endangered bitterling Acheilognathus typus after eradication of the blackbass (April 25, 2021). ■ Fish Story Magazine “Botejako” 25 was issued (March, 2021). ■ A comment paper was published on conservation issues of an endangered bitterling Rhodeus smithii smithii (October 19, 2020). ■ We are going to draw-down a pond for blackbass eradication in Kurihara, Miyagi, Japan (2020). ■ A research article on restoration of an endangered bitterling Acheilognathus melanogaster after eradication of the blackbass was published (August 20, 2020). ■ Proposal for conservation of an endangered loach Parabotia curtus in Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan was issued to the Minister of the Environment, the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, the Governor of Kyoto Prefecture, and the Mayor of Kameoka City (March 26, 2020). ■ Fish Story Magazine “Botejako” 24 was issued (March, 2020). ■ 9th All Japan Bitterling Summit in Kurihara was taken place (November, 2019). ■ We drained a pond in Kurihara, Miyagi, Japan off for eradication of the blackbass (November, 2019). ■ Fish Story Magazine “Botejako” 23 was issued (March, 2019). ■ 8th All Japan Bitterling Summit in Kurihara was taken place (February, 2019). ■ A project toward habitat restoration of an endangered bitterling Acheilognathus typus started thanks to a subsidy from Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund (KNCF) (2018–2020). ■ Office moved from Tokyo to Miyagi (October, 2017). ■ Re-established as a general asssociation (November, 2009). ■ Established as a limited liability association (April, 2003). |