Hi,

Obviously it is a goof up.

I think it is more a reminder that reputable journals rarely solicit publications. Spamming is a too common problem so it suggests some academics are fooled by these approaches and could give away their work to predatory/ unethical publishers.

Very funny indeed!

Dear Rhonda Faragher ,

Beside this obvious lack of well...let's say... 'carefulness' (although looking at the published papers they are at least really related to the title and scope of the journal), there are more red flags that this is a journal to stay away from. The “Journal of Fisheries Research” is published by “Allied Academies” which is mentioned in the Beall’s list: https://beallslist.net/

-Contact location is most likely nothing but a virtual office for registration purposes and mentions Pulsus Group Inc. and suggests a link to OMICS (a notorious predatory publisher): http://flakyc.blogspot.com/2018/05/ more indications that is all the same mess: http://flakyj.blogspot.com/search/label/AA

-Contact info suggests UK location while nobody in their editorial board is British

-The APC is 1219 euro, which is ridiculously high for a basically non-indexed journal

-Well, it is basically all summarized here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Academies

Sad that these people are still around and indeed sad that apparently this type of doing ‘business’ is profitable.

Best regards.

Interesting indeed!