Introduction

This personal website is designed to be an introduction of the current researches by Akinori Takasuka. My interests have been directed to the mechanisms of fish population dynamics. The current main topics are biological mechanisms of species alternations, growth-based survival mechanisms during early life stages, and spawning biology of small pelagic fish. Special emphasis has been on biological and ecological perspectives.

Brief personal history

I have had an interest in fish since early childhood. During grade-school years, I would often go in a river to catch catfish. Also, I was an enthusiastic aquarist and collected foreign freshwater fish in aquariums. Finally, I decided to be a fisheries biologist, when I proceeded to a junior year in the University. In March 2003, my PhD thesis was finished. This seems somewhat funny for myself, as my childhood dream was to be a fish-doctor (sensu a person of broad knowledge). Always, I hope to be a researcher of "hot heart & cool mind" and aspire to be "a specialist with the property of a generalist".

Update: October 30, 2025 (Publications)

Current topics
October 30, 2025	Quintanilla et al. (2025) FOG publsihed online.
April 2, 2025	Sassa et al. (2025) JMBA publsihed online.
February 26, 2025	Miyazono et al. (2025) EST publsihed online.
October 29, 2024	Higashiguchi et al. (2025) FOG publsihed online.
October 29, 2024	Yasue et al. (2024) JMBA publsihed online.
May 28, 2024	Togoshi et al. (2024) FOG publsihed online.
May 9, 2024	Watai et al. (2024) FOG publsihed online.
April 25, 2024	Tanaka et al. (2024) FR publsihed online.
November 10, 2023	Takeuchi et al. (2023) MFR publsihed online.
July 7, 2023	Robert et al. (2023) FF publsihed online.
January 25, 2023	Thushari et al. (2023) MPB publsihed online.
December 10, 2022	Tanaka et al. (2022) FOG publsihed online.
July 28, 2022	Nyuji et al. (2022) JSR publsihed online.
July 4, 2022	Nakamura et al. (2022) Oecologia publsihed online.
April 1, 2022	Nyuji et al. (2022) AFF publsihed online.
April 26, 2021	Takasuka et al. (2021) FF publsihed online.
April 12, 2021	Yoshitake et al. (2021) SR publsihed online.
December 21, 2020	Kanamori et al. (2021) FR publsihed online.
December 16, 2020	Peck et al. (2021) PO publsihed online.
November 18, 2020	Takasuka (2020) JSFO publsihed online.
November 18, 2020	Okunishi et al. (2020) JSFO published online.
October 6, 2020	Kuroda et al. (2020) FMS publsihed online.
August 29 2020	Takasuka et al. (2020) FOG publsihed online.
May 27, 2020	Sassa & Takasuka (2020) DSR-I publsihed online.
August 15, 2019	Kanamori et al. (2019) MEPS publsihed online.
June 12, 2019	Takasuka et al. (2019) FF publsihed online.
June 12, 2019	Keynote talk at the Johan Hjort symposium in Bergen, Norway.
May 31, 2019	Sassa & Takasuka (2019) DSR-I publsihed online.
April 1, 2019	Moved from Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency to the University of Tokyo.

Organizing a symposium & workshop on "Growth–survival paradigm in early life stages of fish: controversy, synthesis, and multidisciplinary approach" (Yokohama, Japan, November, 2015).
国際シンポジウム・ワークショップ 「魚類の初期生活史における成長–生残パラダイム: 論争・統合・複数分野を跨るアプローチ」を主催 (2015年11月横浜).
Symposium on "Growth–survival paradigm in early life stages of fish: controversy, synthesis, and multidisciplinary approach" will be held in Yokohama, Japan, November, 2015. Symposium website

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