Vol. 70 No. 5, SEPTEMBER 2004 CONTENTS |
| The Imperial Prize, The Japan Academy Prize: Prize winner Dr. TAKESHI YASUMOTO | |
| Chemistry, etiology, and food chain dynamics of marine biotoxins | |
| 666 | |
| Reviews | |
| Studies on acoustic target strength of fish and zooplankton | |
| TOHRU MUKAI | 667 |
| Development of a device for shucking oysters | |
| AKIRA MUROKOSHI | 671 |
| Disease damage reduction strategy for pearl oyster ( Pinctada fucata mertensii) using low water temperature culture areas | |
| KIYOHITO NAGAI, MASAKI OKADA AND JYOJI GO | 674 |
| Studies on improvement in quality of spindle-shape fish by instant killing and bleeding | |
| MAKOTO TERAYAMA | 678 |
| Originals | |
| Validation of daily-formed growth increments on the shell surface of the young giant abalone, Haliotis madaka | |
| HIDEMIKI TSUIKI, NAOYUKI TAKIGUCHI, TAKASHI YAMAKAWA AND ICHIRO AOKI | 682 |
| Pyrene decomposing yeasts collected from sea water of Tokyo Bay | |
| HUIFENG REN, SATOSHI ZANMA, NAOTO URANO, HIDEAKI ENDO, SHIGERU MINEKI AND TETSUHITO HAYASHI |
687 |
| Spawning behavior of shira-uo Salangichthys microdon in captivity | |
| MOTOHITO YAMAGUCHI, TAKASHI FUJIOKA, TOSHIRO SARUWATARI AND MICHIO OMORI | 693 |
| An application of a Bayesian model as an auxiliary method for analyzing growth | |
| SHUHEI OHNISHI AND KATSUHIRO KISO | 699 |
| Hooking Mortality and Growth of Caught and Released Japanese Charr Salvelinus leucomaenis and Masu Salmon Oncorhynchus masou masou in Experiment Ponds | |
| TAKAHIDE DOI, TOMOYUKI NAKAMURA, MASASHI YOKOTA, TAKASHI MARUYAMA, SEIICHI WATANABE, HIROFUMI NOGUCHI, YUSUKE SANO AND TOMOFUMI FUJITA |
706 |
| Age and growth of Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus from the coastal waters around Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, using transverse sections of otoliths | |
| SHIN ATSUCHI, YASUJI MASUDA, HIROSHI AKAMO AND KATSUO IORI | 714 |
| Artificial midlayer seafloor: simple and new devices to reduce organic loads from oyster rafts to the sediment | |
| OSAMU KAWAGUCHI, TAMIJI YAMAMOTO, OSAMU MATSUDA, TOSHIYA HASHIMOTO AND HARUYOSHI TAKAYAMA |
722 |
| Ghost-fishing ability decreasing over time for lost bottom-gillnet and estimation of total number of mortality | |
| TOSHIKO NAKASHIMA AND TATSURO MATSUOKA | 728 |
| By-catch and discards of marketable species for small-scale trawler in Ariake Sea | |
| YOSHIO HIRAI AND HIDEYUKI NISHINOKUBI | 738 |
| Effects of water flow and water temperature on the growth of smallmouth bass Micropterus dolomieu and largemouth bass M. salmoides | |
| TOMOYUKI NAKAMURA, OSAMU KATANO AND SHOICHIRO YAMAMOTO | 745 |
| Distribution and morphological maturation size of the snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio in the southwest area of the Okhotsk Sea in summer | |
| TAKASHI YANAGIMOTO, IKUKO YOSHO AND KAZUTOSHI WATANABE | 750 |
| Effect of water temperature on the protein digestibility of extruded pellet, single moist pellet and Oregon moist pellet in one-year-old yellowtail | |
| KOH-ICHI SATOH, KEISUKE KIMOTO AND ETSUHISA HITAKA | 758 |
| Mini-Symposium | |
| Current topics on plasma lipoprotein, phospholipase A2, and leptin receptor of aquatic animals | |
| SEIICHI HAYASHI, NORIAKI IIJIMA, SEIICHI ANDO, TOSHIYASU YAMAGUCHI, HIDEKI KISHIMURA, TAKAO OJIMA, KENJI HAYASHI, KIYOYOSHI NISHITA, TADAHIDE KUROKAWA, SUSUMU UJI AND TOHRU SUZUKI |
764 |
| Trend of cephalopod biology: molecular analysis, behavioral study and population dynamics | |
| YASUNORI SAKURAI, YUZURU IKEDA, SHUICHI SHIGENO, TATEO SHIMOZAWA AND YUKIO UETA |
776 |
| Primary producer in a tidal flat—It's physiology and role on tidal ecosystem— | |
| KUNINAO TADA, SADAAKI YOSHIMATSU, TOMOHIKO KAWAMURA, KAZUHIKO ICHIMI AND SHIGERU MONTANI |
787 |
| News | |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Fishing Technology | 798 |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Aquaculture | 803 |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Utilization of Marine Products | 806 |
| Regional News | |
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | 810 |
| New Books | 815 |
| Topics | 816 |
| Abstracts of Original Papers | |
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol. 70, No. 5 | 824 |
| Fisheries Science Vol. 70, No. 4 | 826 |
| Members | 830 |
| Announcements | 831 |