During the 6th International Otolith Symposium, which was held during 15–20 April 2018 in Keelung, Taiwan, Szymon Smoliński, our employee from the NMFRI Department of Fisheries Resources, was presented with the Award for the Best Student Poster Presentation by the judges of the 6th International Otolith Symposium and the Ichthyological Society of Taiwan that assessed the substantive value of the work, the way the results were depicted and the enthusiasm of the presenter.