Prof. Deguo Yang is a researcher at the Key Laboratory of Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, Wuhan, China. He is also a part-time Professor at the Huazhong Agricultural University. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Life Sciences, National University of Singapore, in 2012. His main areas of research focus on Fish Biology and Conservation Engineering.