Vol. 77 No. 4, JULY 2011 CONTENTS |
| 2010 Award of Excellence for Scientific Paper Entitled | |
| 571 | |
| Achievement Award for Young Scientist in Fisheries Science 2010 | |
| Biochemical investigation for the blackening of fisheries products | |
| KOHSUKE ADACHI | 578 |
| Development of fat soluble vitamins excessive model to prevent malformation of Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus | |
| YUTAKA HAGA | 582 |
| Acoustic biomass estimates of mesopelagic fishes in the western North Pacific | |
| HIROKI YASUMA | 585 |
| New taxonomy of the freshwater eels, genus Anguilla | |
| SHUN WATANABE | 589 |
| Originals | |
| Effects of potential factors on sales price of bigeye tuna in a large-distant-water type tuna longline fishery: Application of a general linear mixed model | |
| KOSUKE YOKOTA, TAKAYOSHI UEHARA, KATSUHIKO SAWADA, HIJIRI IGA, SHINTARO IMAMURA, TAKASHI KIMIYA, MICHIKO SUZUKI, YOSHINOBU HIRAOKA, MASAKI KANENIWA, TATSUKI OSHIMA AND IPPEI FUSEJIMA |
593 |
| Movement of daggertooth pike conger Muraenesox cinereus through artificial burrows in captivity: diurnal and seasonal patterns | |
| TAKAHIRO OKAZAKI, YUKIO UETA AND TATSUO HAMANO | 600 |
| Differences in bivalve assemblages of artificial and natural tidal flats in inner Tokyo Bay | |
| SHIGERU AOKI, TAKESHI YANAGIUCHI, YUSUKE MIZUNO, KEN OKAMOTO AND AKINORI HINO |
606 |
| Seasonal changes in the sexual maturity of the north Pacific giant octopus Enteroctopus dofleini in the Soya/La Perouse Strait | |
| MINORU SANO, TADAO BANDO AND YUKIO MIHARA | 616 |
| Effect of predator learning on the anti-predator performance of hatchery-reared black-spot tuskfish Choerodon schoenleinii | |
| YUUKI KAWABATA, HIDEAKI YAMADA, TAKU SATO, MASATO KOBAYASHI, NARISATO HIRAI, KAZUHISA TERUYA AND NOBUAKI ARAI |
625 |
| Genetic factors associated with transparency of juvenile red sea bream, Pagrus major | |
| EITARO SAWAYAMA AND MOTOHIRO TAKAGI | 630 |
| Screening of the male characteristic DNA fragment using AFLP analysis in Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis | |
| YASUO AGAWA, TAKAFUMI KOMIYA, TOMOKI HONRYO, MICHIO KURATA, TOKIHIKO OKADA, OSAMU MURATA, HIDEMI KUMAI AND YOSHIFUMI SAWADA |
639 |
| Changes in red tide occurrence and organisms responsible for declining eutrophic level in hyper-eutrophic Dokai Bay, Japan | |
| MACHIKO YAMADA, NAOKO UEDA AND KEN-ICHIRO HAMADA | 647 |
| Polysaccharide components and functional activity of commercial brown algae collected from the Noto peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture | |
| NAOKO TERASAWA, RIE YOSHIDA AND YOSHIO KAMOSHIDA | 656 |
| Effects of storage under gaseous oxygen on degradation of trimethylamine-N-oxide in the muscle of Pacific saury | |
| WATARU SATO, RIPPEI SHIKOTA AND HISANORI NOZAWA | 665 |
| Progress of lipid oxidation and changes in antioxidative activity during processing of heshiko and narezushi, produced by aging of salted mackerel with rice bran or cooked rice | |
| RYOUKO HARUNO(IMAZU), YOSHIAKI AKAHANE AND TOORU OOIZUMI | 674 |
| Analysis of composition and absorption maximum of visual pigment, and quantity of visual pigment at representative stages in the whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Short Paper) | |
| KEISHI MATSUDA, EIICHI HASEGAWA AND MARCY N. WILDER | 682 |
| First report of the benthic dinoflagellate of the genus Gambierdiscus from western Wakasa Bay in the Sea of Japan (Short Paper) | |
| YUKI HATAYAMA, AKIRA ISHIKAWA, MASAFUMI NATSUIKE, YUMI TAKEICHI, TETSURO AJISAKA, SHIGEKI SAWAYAMA AND ICHIRO IMAI |
685 |
| Featured Articles | |
| Fish resources and fisheries in the Japanese boundary waters Part I | |
| Foreword | |
| MOTOHARU UCHIDA | 688 |
| International dispute and islands economy in the waters around border | |
| YOSHIHIKO YAMADA | 690 |
| Kombu seaweed harvesting fishery and its secured operation in the waters around Kaigara-jima | |
| YASUHIKO ITO | 694 |
| The new fisheries regime and fisheries adjustment among Japan, China, and Korea | |
| CHIKASHI KATAOKA | 699 |
| The large scale puse seine fishery of Japan in the East China Sea— fishery resource management and ensuring the secured operation | |
| TOSHIKATSU MAEDA | 702 |
| History and current state of fisheries in Senkaku Islands | |
| MAKOMO KUNIYOSHI | 704 |
| Damages to fisheries by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami disasters | |
| 709 | |
| News | |
| The Steering Committee for the Colloquium on Aquaculture | |
| 715 | |
| Regional News | |
| 719 | |
| Highlights in Fisheries Science Research | |
| 722 | |
| New Books | |
| 724 | |
| Topics | |
| 727 | |
| Abstracts of Original Papers | |
| Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi Vol. 77, No. 4 | |
| 747 | |
| Fisheries Science Vol. 77 No. 3 | |
| 749 | |
| Letter from Board of Directors | |
| 752 | |
| Announcements | |
| 753 | |