No.139

May 20, 2006

●	Recurrent Collision between Whales and Ships Seiji Ohsumi Adviser, The Institute of Cetacean Research
●	Watch the Ocean Mihoko Sato Accountant, Japan Seabird Group Former Secretariat, Friends of the Hokkaido Seabird Center
●	The Meanings of Science and Industry of Fisheries in the 21st Century Hisashi Kurokura Professor, Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Recurrent Collision between Whales and Ships

Seiji Ohsumi
Adviser, The Institute of Cetacean Research

Recently, there are frequent reports of passenger ships colliding with whales. It seems that similar accidents may happen often even with cargo and fishing ships. However, these cases are hardly mentioned by the media.
It's best to investigate as quickly as possible the cause as to why collisions between whales and ships happen so often and to take preventive countermeasures.

Watch the Ocean

Mihoko Sato
Accountant, Japan Seabird Group Former Secretariat, Friends of the Hokkaido Seabird Center

Oil fields in Sakhalin are being developed, however, once an oil pollution incident happens, it's apparent that this will cause damage to wildlife as well as seabirds.
Just in case, to lessen these damages as much as possible, we need to figure out where, what kind of wildlife and when, how many are there beforehand.
The Friends of the Hokkaido Seabird Center is continuingly doing beached bird surveys along the coast of northern Hokkaido.

The Meanings of Science and Industry of Fisheries in the 21st Century

Hisashi Kurokura
Professor, Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

There is a hypothesis that the livelihood and culture of the fishing village society have an influence on the history of Christianity. This article points out the possibility of the contributions of the science of fisheries to the formulation of the idea and culture of global sharing in the 21st century.