Vol. 76 No. 4, July 2010 CONTENTS |
| Greetings from the President | |
| TOSHIO TAKEUCHI | 577 |
| 2009 Award of Excellence for Scientific Paper Entitled | |
| 578 | |
| The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science Award 2009 | |
| Parasitic diseases of fish and shellfish of Japan | |
| KAZUO OGAWA | 586 |
| Research on quality control of seafood, and functional benefits and the evidence of the functionality of seafood components | |
| TAKASHI HIRATA | 599 |
| Achievement Award for Young Scientist in Fisheries Science 2009 | |
| Studies on bycatch reduction of sea turtles in tuna longline fisheries | |
| DAISUKE SHIODE | 605 |
| Fish genome expands opportunities to understand fish adaptive immune system | |
| HIROAKI SUETAKE | 609 |
| Studies on yolk precursors and their receptors involved in fish oogenesis | |
| NAOSHI HIRAMATSU | 613 |
| Individual life history and population dynamics in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis | |
| TATSUKI YOSHINAGA | 617 |
| Originals | |
| Mitochondrial 16S rDNA analysis used to distinguish Corbicula japonica from Japan and imported species from Korea and China | |
| AKIRA KOMARU, HISAKO HORI, YASUHIRO YANASE, KENJI ONOUCHI, TAKESHI KATO, RYO ISHIBASHI, KOUICHI KAWAMURA, MASAHIRO KOBAYASHI AND MUTSUMI NISHIDA |
621 |
| Regional and seasonal changes of hardness of the giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai | |
| HOJI IWATANI, NAOTO IETSUGU, HIDEAKI MAEDA, NAOKI IGUCHI, MIYUKI HIROSE AND YOSHIKI MATSUSITA |
630 |
| Multiple marking of alizarin complexone for the otolith of nigorobuna Carassius auratus grandoculis and estimation of individual size-at-release | |
| KOH-ICHI FUJIWARA, TAKAHIRO USUKI, MORIHITO NEMOTO AND SHUICHI KITADA | 637 |
| Evaluation of the economic impacts of the Shibetsu Regional HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) effort | |
| KAORU ISHII, JUN YOKOYAMA, JUNRO KUMAGAI, ATSUMI FURUYA AND MAMORU YOSHIMIZU |
646 |
| Differences between wild and hatchery-reared masu salmon Oncorhynchus masou masou in their migration patterns to their spawning grounds in the Chitose River, Hokkaido | |
| SATOSHI IMAI, KENICHI OHMOTO, MASAYA TAKAHASHI, KOUTA MIYAMOTO, IKUO ONO, AND KAZUMASA OHKUMA |
652 |
| Estimation of the fishing efficiency of a mid-water trawl for Pacific saury Cololabis saira using a high-frequency side-scan sonar | |
| MIYAKO NAYA, YASUHIRO UENO, TAKASHI MOURI, KAZUHIRO OSHIMA, TOSHIHIRO WATANABE, KAORU FUJITA, KIYOSHI ITOH, KAZUHARU IWASAKI, YASUNARI MATSUO, YUTAKA ITOH AND YUICHI SHIMIZU |
658 |
| Forecast of the first ascending day and number of ascending ayu Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis in rivers flowing into Lake Biwa | |
| AKIHISA SAKAI | 670 |
| Effects of yuzu juice-supplemented diets on prevention of dark muscle discoloration during storage in yellowtail Seriola quinqueradiata and detection of yuzu flavor components in fish meat | |
| HARUHISA FUKADA, TOMOMI HASHIGUCHI, TAKEHIRO KASHIWAGI, AYUMI SENO, FUMIAKI TAKAKUWA, KATSUJI MORIOKA, MASAYOSHI SAWAMURA AND TOSHIRO MASUMOTO |
678 |
| Biochemical and thermodynamic characteristics of myoglobin from the skeletal muscle of sei whale Balaenoptera borealis | |
| YOSHIHIRO OCHIAI, YOSHIAKI WATANABE, NAOYUKI UCHIDA, HIDEO OZAWA AND SHUGO WATABE |
686 |
| Changes in quality and denaturation of sarcoplasmic protein components in the burnt meat of bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus orientalis | |
| YOSHIHIRO OCHIAI | 695 |
| Quantitative estimation of Flavobacterium psychrophilum discharged from infected ayu Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis by real-time PCR (Short Paper) | |
| KENICHI OHARA, TETSUSHI KAGEYAMA, TOMONORI KUWADA, TETSUYA UMINO AND SHUICHI FURUSAWA |
705 |
| Symposium | |
| Damage control measures by the great cormorant to fisheries —Aiming to the resolution of great cormorant problems— | |
| MAYUMI MURAKAMI, HIROSHI HAKOYAMA, KEIICHIRO IGUCHI, TATSURO AKAMINE, KATSUFUMI SATO, KAYOKO KAMEDA, YASUHIRO IWATA, YOSHINARI OHTOMO, HIDEKI TANAKA, SACHIHO SASAKI, KEN YODA, YASUAKI NIIZUMA, KOHJI KONISHI, SOICHIRO KATO, SHOHEI KANEKO, KENICHIRO AI, TETSUYA IINO, JUN-ICHI TSUBOI, TERUAKI HINO, AKIRA ISHIDA, SATORU KURITA, YUKIKO INOUE, HIDENORI FUJII, MASAHIRO FUJIOKA AND NAO KUMADA |
708 |
| Mini-Symposium | |
| A new development of deep-sea water | |
| CHIAKI IMADA, HISATO YASUDA, KAZUTOSHI OKAMOTO, KATSUHISA YAMADA, TAMOTSU FURUMAI AND RYUJI YOSHIDA |
722 |
| News | |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Utilization of Marine Products | |
| 728 | |
| Regional News | |
| 731 | |
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | |
| 740 | |
| New Books | |
| 746 | |
| Topics | |
| 748 | |
| Abstracts of Original Papers | |
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol. 76 No. 4 | |
| 776 | |
| Fisheries Science Vol. 76 No. 3 | |
| 778 | |
| Letter from Board of Directors | |
| 781 | |
| Announcements | |
| 783 | |