Dr. Chiyuki Sassa received the best poster presentation award of PICES 2011, Khabarovsk, Russia, on his study "Reproductive biology of Benthosema pterotum (Myctophidae) in the shelf region of the East China Sea". He has been studied the ecology and biology of mesopelagic fish, and he is going to examine the interaction between mesopelagic fish and commercial targeted species in SKED. Congratulation Chiyuki!