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MUKAISHIMA HINKAI JIKKFNSHO 



Cephalochordata : BiMichiostoma japotiicuin 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Cytotaxonomic studies of Mollusca (Dr. Akihiko 



Inaba) 

 Fauna of the Inland Sea of Seto (Dr. Akihiko Inaba) 

 Seasonal changes in Sd^ilLi (Dr. Reiichiro Hirota) 

 Plankton fauna of the Inland Sea of Seto (Dr. 



Reiichiro Hirota) 



Hiroshima Daigakii, Sni-Chikusa>i Gaknbii 



HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF FISHERIES 

 AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



POSTAL ADDRESS: Daimon-cho, Fukuyama, Hiroshima 



Prefecture, Nippon (Japan). 

 LOCATION: Fukuyama. 

 EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. Hisashi Kashima, Dean. 



YEAR FOUNDED: 1949. 



SCOPE OF activities: Unrestricted research on fisheries, 

 oceanography, aquatic zoology, and phycology, with 

 special emphasis on the problems related to the fish- 

 eries and aquiculture in the Seto Inland Sea ; under- 

 graduate instruction. 



PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBLE: SetO Naikai 



(Inland Sea); sandy and silty beaches, estuarine con- 

 ditions, brackish, shallow bays, eutrophic lake, and 

 rivers and streams. 

 PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Space for 2 vis- 

 itors; fees charged ; living quarters available nearby. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Moder- 

 ately complete library; running sea and fresh-water, 

 large outdoor tanks, small aquarium tanks; research 

 collections of Cephalopoda, Pisces, and seaweeds; 

 identified reference collections of local fishes, inverte- 

 brates, and sea weeds; machine and wood shop, elec- 

 trical and electronic shop; small boats and outboard 



motors; 21 m LOA vessel, M/S Toyoshio Marii. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM IN MARINE BIOLOGY: Fish- 

 eries, statistics, general oceanography, planktology, 

 limnology, aquatic zoology, animal ecology, animal 

 physiology, animal histology and embroyology, aquatic 

 botany, plant physiology and ecology, embroyology 

 of algae, applied phycology, fish population dynamics, 

 aquiculture, fish embroyology, ichthyology, fish pro- 

 cessing, chemistry of nutrition, biochemistry, chemistry 

 of oil and fat, applied microbiology, and food sanita- 

 tion. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Twenty-two at professional level; 39 

 technicians. 



important species available for laboratory 

 studies: 

 Rhodophyeae: Porphyra tenera 

 Phaeophyceae : UiicLma pinnalifida 

 Echinodermata: Tenniopleurus toreumatictis 

 Mollusca: Ostrea gigcis, Tapes seiii'/clecHsscitii. Sepia 



eiculeiila, Octopus vulgare 

 Pisces: Vugii ruhripes. Lateolabrax japoniciis, Aii- 

 guil/a japoiiica 



MAJOR CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC 

 LEADERS: 



Cytology of Porphyra (Rhodophyta) (T. Fujiyama) 

 Improvement of seaweed culture techniques (T. 



Fujiyama) 

 Amino acid composition of muscle extracts of aquatic 



animals (K. Ito) 

 Algal flora of the Inland Sea of Japan (S. Inumaru) 

 Annulus formation in the otolith of fish (T. Irie) 

 Pound-net fishing in the Inland Sea (S. Kakuda) 

 Chemical studies on volatile constituents of seaweeds 



(T. Katayama) 

 Plankton and primary productivity of the Inland Sea 



(H. Koyama) 

 Ecology and culture of marine fishes (D. Kusakabe) 

 Chemical study of marine suspended matter (Y. 



Matsudaira and T. Endo) 



SUI-CHIK.USAN GAK.UBU 



