1. Recreational fisheries in the USA: economics, management strategies, and ecological threats

   • Robert M. Hughes

   Review Article Open access 28 October 2014 Pages: 1 - 9

2. Progression in artificial seedling production of Japanese eel Anguilla japonica

   • Hideki Tanaka

   Review Article Open access 26 November 2014 Pages: 11 - 19

   

3. Productivity change under the vessel buyback program in Korean fisheries

   • Sang-Go Lee
   • Amaj Rahimi Midani

   Original Article 04 December 2014 Pages: 21 - 28

   

4. Cloning and expression analyses of a unique IgT in ayu Plecoglossus altivelis

   • Goshi Kato
   • Tomokazu Takano
   • Chihaya Nakayasu

   Original Article 21 November 2014 Pages: 29 - 36

   

5. Changes in the composition of stock origin and standard length of ayu Plecoglossus altivelis altivelis during the Tomozuri angling season in the Nagara River, central Japan

   • Shizuo Aino
   • Taiga Yodo
   • Motoi Yoshioka

   Original Article 10 December 2014 Pages: 37 - 42

   

6. Diet, growth, and abundance of two seagrass bed fishes along a pollution gradient caused by milkfish farming in Bolinao, northwestern Philippines

   • Mikio Watai
   • Yohei Nakamura
   • Miguel D. Fortes

   Original Article 16 November 2014 Pages: 43 - 51

   

7. Variation in life-history traits for micro-cohorts of Sepioteuthis lessoniana in the waters off northern Taiwan

   • Chih-Shin Chen
   • Jing-Yu Chen
   • Chiao-Wen Lin

   Original Article 04 December 2014 Pages: 53 - 64

   

8. Isolation of crustacean hyperglycemic hormone-family peptides with vitellogenesis-inhibiting activity from the shiba shrimp Metapenaeus joyneri

   • Midori Fukushima
   • Sayaka Kotaka
   • Tsuyoshi Ohira

   Original Article 05 December 2014 Pages: 65 - 72

   

9. The variable 5′ end of the 16S rRNA gene as a novel barcoding tool for scallops (Bivalvia, Pectinidae)

   • Alan Marín
   • Takafumi Fujimoto
   • Katsutoshi Arai

   Original Article 28 October 2014 Pages: 73 - 81

   

10. Selectively bred juvenile F2 amago salmon Oncorhynchus masou ishikawae fed a low fishmeal diet exhibit growth comparable to unselected juveniles fed a fishmeal-based diet

    • Takeshi Yamamoto
    • Koji Murashita
    • Nobuhiro Suzuki

    Original Article 28 October 2014 Pages: 83 - 93

    

11. Effects of replacing fish meal with rendered animal protein and plant protein sources on growth response, biological indices, and amino acid availability for rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    • Feng Lu
    • Yutaka Haga
    • Shuichi Satoh

    Original Article 02 November 2014 Pages: 95 - 105

12. Effects of water temperature on survival, growth, digestive enzyme activities, and body composition of the leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus

    • Zhijing Sun
    • Sudong Xia
    • Shuguang Jiang

    Original Article 04 December 2014 Pages: 107 - 112

    

13. Identification of male sex-linked DNA sequence of the cultured Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis

    • Yasuo Agawa
    • Mayui Iwaki
    • Yoshifumi Sawada

    Original Article 09 December 2014 Pages: 113 - 121

    

14. Meteorological conditions preceding Chattonella bloom events in the Yatsushiro Sea, Japan, and possible links with the East Asian monsoon

    • Goh Onitsuka
    • Kazuhiro Aoki
    • Manabu Shimizu

    Original Article 16 November 2014 Pages: 123 - 130

    

15. Immigration of the common cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo hanedae into inland areas of the northern part of Nagano Prefecture, eastern Japan, inferred from stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur

    • Takaharu Natsumeda
    • Hiroyuki Sakano
    • Kei’ichiro Iguchi

    Original Article 05 December 2014 Pages: 131 - 137

    

16. Fukushima-derived radionuclides ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs in zooplankton and seawater samples collected off the Joban-Sanriku coast, in Sendai Bay, and in the Oyashio region

    • Hideki Kaeriyama
    • Ken Fujimoto
    • Tomowo Watanabe

    Original Article 30 November 2014 Pages: 139 - 153

    

17. Molecular characterization of calponin in the catch muscle of the Yesso scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis

    • Daisuke Funabara
    • Shugo Watabe
    • Satoshi Kanoh

    Original Article 16 November 2014 Pages: 155 - 162

    

18. Identification and gene expression profile analysis of a major type of lipoprotein lipase in adult medaka Oryzias latipes

    • Lu Wang
    • Gen Kaneko
    • Hideki Ushio

    Original Article 30 November 2014 Pages: 163 - 173

    

19. Mud crab Scylla paramamosain glutamate dehydrogenase: molecular cloning, tissue expression and response to hyposmotic stress

    • Jing-Ying Lu
    • Miao-An Shu
    • Yu Liu

    Original Article 16 December 2014 Pages: 175 - 186

    

20. Important amino acid residues for the crab toxicity of PaTX, a type 3 sodium channel peptide toxin from the sea anemone Entacmaea actinostoloides

    • Akinori Kono
    • Tomohiro Honma
    • Kazuo Shiomi

    Original Article 09 December 2014 Pages: 187 - 192

    

21. Nutrients and non-volatile taste compounds in Chinese mitten crab by-products

    • Yan-Ru Guo
    • Sai-Qi Gu
    • Jing Shi

    Original Article 28 October 2014 Pages: 193 - 203