Vol. 72 No. 4, JULY 2006 CONTENTS |
| Greetings from the President | ||
| KATSUMI AIDA | 619 | |
| 2005 Award of Excellence for Scientific Paper Entitled | ||
| 621 | ||
| Reviews | ||
| Studies on life history strategy and population dynamics of salmonids | ||
| MASAHIDE KAERIYAMA | 628 | |
| Functional and morphological studies on ion- and osmoregulation in fish | ||
| TOYOJI KANEKO | 632 | |
| Oxidative stability of marine lipids in aqueous solution | ||
| KAZUO MIYASHITA | 636 | |
| Studies on early life history of coastal fisheries resources and their application to stock enhancement program | ||
| YOH YAMASHITA | 640 | |
| Originals | ||
| Target strength measurements of black rockfish, goldeye rockfish and black scraper using a 70-kHz split-beam echo sounder | ||
| DAE-JAE LEE | 644 | |
| Age and growth of flathead flounder Hippoglossoides dubius collected off Kyoto Prefecture, Japan | ||
| NAOKI YAGISHITA, ATSUSHI YAMASAKI AND EIJI TANAKA | 651 | |
| Accumulation performance of large-scale set nets in Iwate Prefecture for chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta | ||
| SEIJI AKIYAMA AND SATOSHI KAIHARA | 659 | |
| Forecasting ascending population sizes of amphidromous juvenile ayu Plecoglossus altivelis in the Nagara River | ||
| KEIICHI SHIMADA, KOICHI GOTO, KAZUO YAMAMOTO AND YOSHIHIRO WADA | 665 | |
| Fecundity of snow crab Chionoecetes opilio off Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan | ||
| TOHSHI KON AND TATSUNORI ADACHI | 673 | |
| Spatio-temporal differentiation of bivalve larval settlement sites in estuarine waters | ||
| RYOGEN NANBU, TOMOMI MIZUNO, TAKASHI KAWAKAMI, KAORU KUBOTA AND HIDEO SEKIGUCHI | 681 | |
| Behavioral responses of the snow crab Chionoecetes spp. to the groundrope of a bottom trawl | ||
| KAORU FUJITA, TOSHIHIRO WATANABE AND DAIJI KITAGAWA | 695 | |
| Effects of delayed initial feeding on larval feeding, early survival, and growth of red spotted grouper Epinephelus akaara larvae | ||
| KENZO YOSEDA, KAZUHISA TERUYA, TAKUMA SUGAYA AND SACHIO SEKIYA | 702 | |
| Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite DNA as genetic tags for stocked population of black rockfish Sebastes inermis of hatchery origin | ||
| TOMOYA MURAKAMI, SATOSHI AIDA, KOUJI YOSHIOKA, HARUMI YOSHIDA, ENRIQUE BLANCO GONZALEZ, MASAHIDE NISHIBORI AND TETSUYA UMINO | 710 | |
| Effects of oscillating water flow on feeding of rabbitfish Siganus fuscescens on kelp | ||
| SHIGERU KAWAMATA AND MASATOSHI HASEGAWA | 717 | |
| Larval development and occurrence of morphological abnormalities in hatchery-reared Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus larvae fed marine rotifer Brachionus plicatilis at different population growth stages | ||
| TSUTOMU TOMODA, MASAHIKO KOISO, JAU-NENG CHEN AND TOSHIO TAKEUCHI | 725 | |
| Development of semi-pelagic/bottom trawl net for a coastal trawl fishery | ||
| YOSHIKI MATSUSHITA, TAISEI KUMAZAWA, MINORU TOMIYAMA, HIROSHI INADA, YOHTO TAKEUCHI, KAORU FUJITA AND SHINTARO YAMASAKI | 734 | |
| Protoplast fusion between luminescent marine bacterium and Escherichia coli with reference to the distribution of parental characteristics in fusants (Short Paper) | ||
| ENSHI ZHANG, CHIAKI IMADA, MASAZUMI KAMATA, TAKESHI KOBAYASHI AND NAOKO HAMADA-SATO | 743 | |
| Regional News | 746 | |
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | 750 | |
| New Books | 758 | |
| Topics | 760 | |
| Abstracts of Original Papers | ||
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol. 72, No. 4 | 781 | |
| Fisheries Science Vol. 72, No. 3 | 783 | |
| Voice | 788 | |
| Letter from Board of Directors | 789 | |
| Announcements | 791 | |