| Vol. 71 No. 3, MAY 2005 CONTENTS | 
| The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science Awards 2004 | 273 | 
| Prize Winners of Award of Merit: WATARU SAKAMOTO, KATSUAKI NASHIMOTO, NOBUO SEKI | |
| Prize Winners of Scientific Achievement Award: HIROSHI UEDA, NOBUAKI OKAMOTO, SATOSHI KANOH | |
| Prize Winners of Achievement Award for Young Scientists: JUN SHOJI, HARUHISA FUKADA, ATSUKO YAMAGUCHI, YUKI HAMADA, CHIE YONEDA | |
| Prize Winner of the Tauchi Memorial Award: HIROSHI INADA | |
| Prize Winners of Technical Achievement Award: MINEO OKAMOTO, YASUSHI HIRATA | |
| Reviews | |
| Physiological and ecological studies on mechanisms of salmon homing | |
| HIROSHI UEDA | 282 | 
| Recent progress in molecular genetics and breeding of fish and shellfish for aquaculture | |
| NOBUAKI OKAMOTO | 286 | 
| Biochemical studies on the structural stability of fish muscle proteins: Urea-resistibility of shark myofibrillar proteins | |
| SATOSHI KANOH | 290 | 
| Originals | |
| Disinfection of Parthenogenetic Eggs of the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis | |
| KEN-ICHI  WATANABE, DAISUKE  SHINOZAKI, MASAHIKO  KOISO, HIROSHI KUWADA AND MAMORU YOSHIMIZU | 294 | 
| Anesthetizer of the adult sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus | |
| YUSUKE YAMANA, TATSUO HAMANO AND KEN-ICHI YAMAMOTO | 299 | 
| Otolith Marking for Eggs, Larvae and Juveniles of Ocellate Puffer Takifugu rubripes by Alizarin Complexone and Tetracycline | |
| YASUHARU MATSUMURA | 307 | 
| Designs and configurations of small-scale otter trawl fishing gear used in Ise-wan Bay, Aichi, Japan | |
| YOSHIKI  MATSUSHITA, TAISEI  KUMAZAWA, MINORU  TOMIYAMA, KAORU FUJITA AND SHINTARO YAMASAKI | 318 | 
| Fatty acid composition of the L-type rotifer Brachionus plicatilis produced by a continuous culture system under the provision of high density Nannochloropsis | |
| TAKAYUKI KOBAYASHI, TOSHIYA NAGASE, NORIHIDE KURANO AND AKINORI HINO | 328 | 
| Maturation of female alfonsino Beryx splendens in water around Izu Islands, central Japan | |
| SEIJI AKIMOTO, YASUKO KUBOSHIMA, ISAMU MITANI AND MAMI SAITOU | 335 | 
| Effect of rotifers enriched with taurine on growth in larvae of Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus | |
| JAU -NENG  CHEN, TOSHIO  TAKEUCHI, TAKAYUKI  TAKAHASHI, TSUTOMU TOMODA, MASAHIKO KOISO AND HIROSHI KUWADA | 342 | 
| Destiny of hooks remaining in the body of Japanese charr Salvelinus leucomaenis and masu salmon Oncorhynchus masou masou | |
| TAKAHIDE  DOI, TOMOYUKI  NAKAMURA, MASASHI  YOKOTA, TAKASHI MARUYAMA, SEIICHI WATANABE, HIROFUMI NOGUCHI, YUSUKE SANO AND TOMOFUMI FUJITA | 348 | 
| Relation of size at release of hatchery-reared black rockfish Sebastes inermis to survival in a Zostera belt around Ikuno Island, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan | |
| TOMOYA  MURAKAMI, KOUJI  YOSHIOKA, SATOSHI AIDA, TETSUYA UMINO AND HEISUKE NAKAGAWA | 354 | 
| Seasonal changes in glycogen contents of the Iwagaki oyster, Crassostrea nippona from the coast of Toga Bay, Konoura, Tomari, and Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan | |
| TAKUJI OKUMURA, NOBUAKI MIURA, HITOSHI SEMURA AND YOSHIHIRO KISHIMOTO | 363 | 
| Effects of pre-pickling of salmon fillets on the chemical and microbiological characteristics of salmon Izushi | |
| MASANORI SASAKI, YUJI KAWAI, MAMORU YOSHIMIZU AND HARUO SHINANO | 369 | 
| Behavioral changes of the conger eel leptocephali with metamorphosis collected in Suruga Bay (Short Paper) | |
| ATSUSHI FUKUI, NORIMASA WATANABE AND ITSURO UOTANI | 378 | 
| News | |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Aquaculture | 381 | 
| Regional News | 385 | 
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | 392 | 
| New Books | 395 | 
| Topics | 397 | 
| Abstracts of Original Papers | |
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol. 71, No. 3 | 413 | 
| Fisheries Science Vol. 71, No. 2 | 415 | 
| Members | 420 | 
| Letter from Board of Directors | 422 | 
| Announcements | 423 |