Vol. 67 No. 1, JANUARY 2001 CONTENTS |
| Obituary | |
| The late Prof. Junsaku Nonaka, honorary member | |
| Chiaki Koizumi | 1 |
| Originals | |
| Seasonal change in stomach contents of silvergray seaperch Malakichthys griseus in Kagoshima Bay, southern Japan | |
| Takaki Iwakawa and Takakazu Ozawa | 3 |
| Maturation cycle and batch fecundity of the bullet tuna Auxis rochei off Cape Ashizuri, southwestern Japan | |
| Yoshio Niiya | 10 |
| Identification of chub and spotted mackerels with mitochondorial cytochrome b gene and its application to respective pelagic eggs fixed with formalin | |
| Keijiro Sezaki, Yasuko Kuboshima, Isamu Mitani, Atsushi Fukui, and Shugo Watabe | 17 |
| A tagging method for the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus nudus (A. Agassiz) with coded wire tag | |
| Minoru Sano, Tetsuo Seki, Michio Omori, and Kazuya Taniguchi | 23 |
| Estimation of the population size in number of ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis, by the DeLury's method in the Chikuma River | |
| Satoshi Yamamoto and the late Yosiharu Matsumiya | 30 |
| Color discrimination conditioning in two octopus Octopus aegina and O. vulgaris. | |
| Gunzo Kawamura, Kazuo Nobutoki, Kazuhiko Anraku,Yoshito Tanaka, and Masaru Okamoto | 35 |
| Development of the digestive system and metamorphosis relating hormones in spotted halibut larvae and early juveniles | |
| Yuji Hotta, Masato Aritaki, Kengo Ohta, Masatomo Tagawa, and Masaru Tanaka |
40 |
| Diving behavior of lipped hard-lure changed by the body shape in the retrieving process | |
| Tomohiro Miki, Nozomu Daida, Hiroshi Inada, Takuhiro Sakai, and Haruyuki Kanehiro |
49 |
| Morphological development and growth of laboratory-reared spotted halibut Verasper variegatus | |
| Masato Aritaki, Kengo Ohta, Yuuji Hotta, and Masaru Tanaka | 58 |
| Subpopulations of Pacific cod Gadus macrocephalus off the Pacific coast of northern Japan | |
| Yasuji Kanno, Yuji Ueda, and Takashi Matsuishi | 67 |
| Purification and properties of lipase from Tilapia intestine —Digestive enzyme of Tilapia - VI— | |
| Akiko (Yamada) Taniguchi, Katsumi Takano, and Ikuzo Kamoi | 78 |
| The effect of addition of protease inhibitor from marine bacterium on the strength of gel formation of sardine meat gel (kamaboko) | |
| Chiaki Imada, Shin-ichiro Nishimoto, and Saburo Hara | 85 |
| Possible utilization of the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata glycogen as a cosmetic material | |
| Satoshi Kanoh, Mayumi Aoyama, Mie Watanabe, Maki Mae, Keiji Takagi, Kenji Shimomura, and Eiji Niwa |
90 |
| Purification and properties of lipase from Tilapia stomach —Digestive enzyme of Tilapia - VII— | |
| Akiko (Yamada) Taniguchi, Katsumi Takano, and Ikuzo Kamoi | 96 |
| Possibility of identifying chub mackerel and spotted mackerel by measuring diameter of mackerel eggs (Short Paper) | |
| Hiroshi Nishida, Tokio Wada, Yoshioki Oozeki, Keijiro Sezaki, and Mami Saito |
102 |
| Population increase of the fluvial Japanese charr Salvelinus leucomaenis after fishing prohibition (Short Paper) | |
| Tomoyuki Nakamura, Takashi Maruyama, and Seiichi Watanabe | 105 |
| Symposium | |
| Fisheries biology and fisheries of white-spotted conger-eel Conger myriaster | |
| Foreword | |
| Akinobu Nakazono, Tadashi Tokai, Noritaka Mochioka, Yasunobu Nabeshima, and Minoru Tanda |
108 |
| I. Fisheries biology | |
| Taxonomy and distribution of Congrid eel | |
| Kiyotaka Hatooka | 109 |
| Early life history of Conger myriaster | |
| Noritaka Mochioka | 111 |
| Growth and feeding behavior of Conger myriaster | |
| Yasunobu Nabeshima | 113 |
| Maturation and spawning of Conger myriaster | |
| Tomoko Utoh | 115 |
| Population structure of Conger myriaster | |
| Katsumi Tsukamoto | 117 |
| II. Conger-eel fisheries and fisheries management | |
| Conger-eel fisheries and fisheries management in Sendai Bay | |
| Mitsuhiro Saeki | 119 |
| Conger-eel fisheries and fisheries management in Tokyo Bay | |
| Takamichi Shimizu | 121 |
| Conger-eel fisheries and fisheries management in the Eastern Seto Inland Sea | |
| Minoru Tanda | 123 |
| Conger-eel fisheries and fisheries resources in the East China Sea | |
| Muneharu Tokimura | 125 |
| Conger-eel fisheries in Korea | |
| Chang-Doo Park | 127 |
| Catch performance of conger-eel fisheries and fisheries management | |
| Tadashi Tokai | 129 |
| Symposium | |
| Capture process research and prospects for the development of selective fishing gear and techniques | |
| Foreword | |
| Katsutaro Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Inoue, Takeshi Yamane, Tatsuro Matsuoka, Tomonori Hiroishi, and Takafumi Arimoto |
131 |
| I. The capture process and aggregation-dispersion behavior of aquatic animals | |
| Trap | |
| Takeshi Yamane | 132 |
| Set-net | |
| Seiji Akiyama and Takafumi Arimoto | 134 |
| Purse seine | |
| Eiichi Hasegawa | 136 |
| Gillnet | |
| Yasuzumi Fujimori | 138 |
| II. The capture process with emphasis on entrapment methods | |
| Trawl | |
| Kaoru Fujita and Yoshiki Matsushita | 140 |
| Trap | |
| Tomonori Hiraishi | 142 |
| Set-net | |
| Yoichiro Ueno | 144 |
| Purse seine | |
| Hiroshi Inada | 146 |
| III. The capture process and conditions for its success | |
| Netting gea | |
| Tatsuro Matsuoka | 148 |
| Angling gear | |
| Nariharu Yamashita | 150 |
| IV. The capture process in relation to behavioral physiology | |
| Visual sense | |
| Kazuhiko Anraku | 152 |
| Stress | |
| Takahito Kojima | 154 |
| Regional News | 156 |
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | |
| Hokkaido Industrial Technology Center | |
| Katsumi Miyajima | 162 |
| International Marine Biotechnology Conference 2000 | |
| Nobuhiro Fusetani | 163 |
| 8 th Congress of the International Developmental and Comparative Immunology | |
| Ikuo Hirono | 164 |
| New Books | 165 |
| Abstracts of Original Papers | |
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol.67, No.1 | 167 |
| Fisheries Science Vol.66, No.6 | 171 |
| Announcements | 179 |