1. In memoriam: Professor Minoru Nomura (1930–2016)

   Obituary 11 August 2016 Pages: 685 - 686

   

2. Relative abundance trend of the blue shark Prionace glauca based on Japanese distant-water and offshore longliner activity in the North Pacific

   • Yuko Hiraoka
   • Minoru Kanaiwa
   • Kotaro Yokawa

   Original Article 08 July 2016 Pages: 687 - 699

   

3. Acoustic monitoring using multi-beam imaging sonar through a set net in the Southern Sea, Korea

   • Hyungbeen Lee
   • Kyounghoon Lee
   • Yongsu Yang

   Original Article 02 August 2016 Pages: 701 - 708

   

4. Early epipelagic life-history characteristics of the North Pacific armorhead Pentaceros wheeleri

   • Chisato Murakami
   • Shiroh Yonezaki
   • Masashi Kiyota

   Original Article 16 July 2016 Pages: 709 - 718

   

5. Glyoxalase 1 gene of Coilia nasus: molecular characterization and differential expression during transport stress

   • Fukuan Du
   • Gangchun Xu
   • Pao Xu

   Original Article 04 July 2016 Pages: 719 - 728

   

6. Growth conditions after recruitment determine residence-emigration tactics of female Japanese eels Anguilla japonica

   • Ryoshiro Wakiya
   • Kenzo Kaifu
   • Noritaka Mochioka

   Original Article 11 July 2016 Pages: 729 - 736

   

7. Sexual asynchrony in the development of beak pigmentation for the neon flying squid Ommastrephes bartramii in the North Pacific Ocean

   • Zhou Fang
   • Bilin Liu
   • Yong Chen

   Original Article 21 July 2016 Pages: 737 - 746

   

8. A simple and rapid determination method for zooxanthellal genetic diversity in giant clams using multiplex PCR

   • Shota Ikeda
   • Hiroshi Yamashita
   • Kazuhiko Koike

   Original Article 08 July 2016 Pages: 747 - 753

   

9. Winter assemblages of ichthyoplankton in the waters of the East China Sea Shelf and surrounding Taiwan

   • Yu-Kai Chen
   • Wen-Yu Chen
   • Ming-An Lee

   Original Article 02 August 2016 Pages: 755 - 769

   

10. Population structure of elongate ilisha Ilisha elongata along the Northwestern Pacific Coast revealed by mitochondrial control region sequences

    • Qian Wang
    • Jie Zhang
    • Chenhong Li

    Original Article 16 August 2016 Pages: 771 - 785

    

11. Comparison of planktonic microbial abundance and dissolved oxygen consumption between the aquaculture ponds of mudskippers and shrimps in the Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam

    • Minoru Wada
    • Fumiaki Mori
    • Dinh Dac Tran

    Original Article 04 July 2016 Pages: 787 - 797

    

12. Production and use of two marine zooplanktons, Tigriopus japonicus and Diaphanosoma celebensis, as live food for red sea bream Pagrus major larvae

    • Atsushi Hagiwara
    • Hee-Jin Kim
    • Yoshitaka Sakakura

    Original Article 09 July 2016 Pages: 799 - 809

    

13. Potential use of corn co-products in fishmeal-free diets for juvenile Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus

    • Sandamali Sakunthala Herath
    • Yutaka Haga
    • Shuichi Satoh

    Original Article 26 July 2016 Pages: 811 - 818

    

14. Effects of low fishmeal diets on the growth performance and physiological condition of ayu Plecoglossus altivelis

    • Takeshi Yamamoto
    • Nobuhiro Suzuki
    • Hitoshi Nakayama

    Original Article 25 July 2016 Pages: 819 - 826

    

15. Development of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of skin fluke Neobenedenia girellae larvae from environmental water

    • Yasuo Agawa
    • Kazuki Tani
    • Sho Shirakashi

    Original Article 09 August 2016 Pages: 827 - 833

    

16. Cellulolytic activity in the hepatopancreas of Chionoecetes opilio and Chionoecetes japonicus: enzymatic adaptations to deep sea environment

    • Kohsuke Adachi
    • Kento Tanimura
    • Katsuji Morioka

    Original Article 01 August 2016 Pages: 835 - 841

    

17. Preceding actin denaturation accelerates myosin denaturation in tilapia myofibrils in frozen storage

    • Wichulada Thavaroj
    • Mari Sakamoto
    • Kunihiko Konno

    Original Article 25 July 2016 Pages: 843 - 850