Growth and development.

The article offers information to the various changes to the journal "Environmental Biology of Fishes." The author mentions the development and implementation of electronic submission and communication procedures, in which contributors now have the option of making their manuscripts available trough open access. Also, the editorial policies and procedure of the journal have changed, as well as a regular procedure of rotation and replacement of Advisory Editors was instituted. The author also mentioned that the impact factor of the journal has increased to 1.175 from 0.975 of the previous year, which he cited due to the careful balance of acceptance and rejection of manuscripts in coordination with publication schedule.