Rajeev Raghavan, Anoop VK and Unmesh Katwate participated in the First Eastern Ghats Ichthyologist Meeting held at Visakhapatanam. While Rajeev Raghavan delivered a keynote talk on the ‘challenges for conserving freshwater fishes in a changing world’ and led a workshop on ‘best taxonomic practices’, Unmesh Katwate delivered a talk on the ‘status and opportunities for fish taxonomy research in the Eastern Ghats landscape’