Vol. 68 No. 5, SEPTEMBER 2002 CONTENTS |
| Obituary | |
| The late Prof. Shizunori Ikeda, honorary member | |
| MORIHIKO SAKAGUCHI | 619 |
| Reviews | |
| Studies on the physical characteristics and position control of towed fishing gears | |
| FUXIANG HU | 621 |
| Development of the microalgae production technology for large-scale larval rearing in marine aquaculture | |
| MASANORI OKAUCHI | 625 |
| Techniques for high-density mass culture of rotifer | |
| KENJI YOSHIMURA | 629 |
| Development and application of transglutaminase for seafood products | |
| YOSHIYUKI KUMAZAWA | 633 |
| Originals | |
| Structure and origin of fish type I collagen （Review Paper） | |
| SHIGERU KIMURA | 637 |
| Sensitivity of tilapia to infrared light measured using a rotating striped drum differs between two strains | |
| RYUTARO KOBAYASHI, MASATO ENDO, GORO YOSHIZAKI AND TOSHIO TAKEUCHI | 646 |
| Grounded and buried fragments of foamed plastic on the coast of Kagoshima prefecture | |
| SHIGERU FUJIEDA, JIRO IKEDA AND FUMIHIRO MAKINO | 652 |
| Seasonal changes and productivity of the Coccophora langsdorfii population off the coast of Oga Peninsula in the Japan Sea | |
| NOBUYASU NAKABAYASHI AND KAZUYA TANIGUCHI | 659 |
| Effect of density on growth in Sakhalin surf clam Pseudocardium sachalinense | |
| TAKASHI HORII, OSAMU MURAKAMI AND IZUMI SAKURAI | 666 |
| Isolation of highly DHA–accumulated Labyrinthulales and their utilization for nutritional enrichment of rotifers and Artemia | |
| MASAHIRO HAYASHI, RYOICHI MATSUMOTO, TAKAO YOSHIMATSU, SATOHIRO TANAKA AND SAKAYU SHIMIZU |
674 |
| Targeted yield and system of allocation for scallop aquaculture in the Oshima area of Hokkaido | |
| TAKESHI HONDA AND NOBORU KIMATA | 679 |
| An evaluation of marine protected areas considering the seasonal migration of fish: An examination for red sea bream Pagrus major and yellow croaker Larimichthys polyactis in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. | |
| YASUTOSHI SHIRAI AND YASUSHI HARADA | 685 |
| Contamination status of PCBs (including coplanar congeners), polychlorinated dibenzo–p–dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in sediments from Uwa Sea, Japan | |
| AKIRA KUBOTA, MASAYUKI SOMEYA, MAFUMI WATANABE AND SHINSUKE TANABE | 695 |
| Preventive effect of polyols on the demulsification of emulsified surimi during frozen storage | |
| EMIKO OKAZAKI, SHUNJI YAKU,YUTAKA FUKUDA, TOORU SAKAI AND SHOICHI NAMBU | 701 |
| Conditioning of negatively phototactic red sea bream and their guidance by light （Short Paper） | |
| GUNZO KAWAMURA, KAZUHIKO ANRAKU, MAYA NAKAHARA AND NORIHIRO SHIGESATO | 706 |
| Featured Articles | |
| Recent trends in the development of functional food constituents | |
| Foreword | |
| HIROSHI NAGAI, SHINGO HIROISHI | 709 |
| Does fish protein have an antihypertensive effect? —ACE-inhibitory peptides derived from fish protein | |
| HITOSHI HARIU | 710 |
| Antarctic krill and its function for human health | |
| NOBUHIKO DOHMOTO | 714 |
| Hen's egg phosphatidylcholine combined with vitamin B12 improved memory dysfunction in brain | |
| YASUNOBU MASUDA | 719 |
| New aspects on functional constituents of sharks | |
| MASAZUMI NISHIKAWA | 723 |
| Development of consumers' health product containing Astaxanthin as a Principle constituent | |
| WATARU MIKI | 729 |
| Mini Symposium | |
| Greenhouse gas balance in mangrove coastal ecosystem | |
| Foreword | |
| YUTAKA TATEDA, KOJI OMORI, KIMIO FUKAMI | 733 |
| Photosynthetic CO2 fixation in a mangrove ecosystem | |
| YOSUKE OKIMOTO | 734 |
| Organic carbon supply and accumulation in mangrove coastal sediment | |
| YUTAKA TATEDA | 736 |
| Flux of the microbial biomass transported from mangrove ecosystem to coastal area | |
| KIMIO FUKAMI | 738 |
| Greenhouse gas flux from sediment enhanced by bioturbation | |
| KOJI OMORI | 740 |
| Emission of nitrous oxide in mangrove coastal region | |
| MASAHIRO IMAMURA | 742 |
| News | |
| The Steering Committee for Colloquium on Fishing Technology | 744 |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Utilization of Marine Products | 751 |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Aquaculture | 755 |
| The Committee for Conservation of Fisheries Environments | 762 |
| Regional News | 772 |
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | |
| Aqua-Culture and Research Institute of Lake Saroma | |
| KIMIHIKO MAEKAWA | 781 |
| Nobel Prize 100—International Forum Commemorative the Centennial of the Nobel Prize— | |
| SHIGEHARU KINOSHITA | 782 |
| New Books | 783 |
| Topics | 784 |
| Abstracts of Original Papers | |
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol. 68, No. 5 | 788 |
| Fisheries Science Vol. 68, No. 4 | 790 |
| Members | 796 |
| Announcements | 797 |