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Fisheries in Japan, squid and cuttlefish
276 FISHERIES IN JAPAN
in Japan, Squid and Cuttlefish. Tetuo Tomiyama and Takashi Hibiya (Editors). Japan Marine Products Photo Materials Association, 6OI-5-17-1, Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan, 1978,161 pp.
Fisheries
The seventh volume of ‘Fisheries in Japan’ deals with the squid and cuttlefish fisheries. Since ancient times, the Japanese have utilized the large decapod resources around Japan: the 1975 statistics reveal that about 470,000 t of squid and cuttlefish yvere caught by the Japanese fleet, more than 70% of which was Surumeika (Todarodes pacificus). Naomi Yoshikawa is in fact again responsible for this very beautiful and valuable, mostly pictorial, book documentingthe decapod fishery of Japan. Each time it is remarkable to observe the high quality maintained in this series. The previous volumes were reviewed in Aquaculture, 10: 189-190 and 12: 368-369 (1977) - salmon and trout; prawns; seabream; tuna; skipjack and mackerel; eels. Yoshikawa’s photographs illustrate the general morphology, anatomy, eggs, mating and spawning of several Japanese cephalopods and their fishery - e.g. troll-hook, spear-, hand- and mechanized line-, hoop-net and gillnet fishing. Also, the various ways of processing squids are shown. As in the earlier published volumes the culinary aspects are not forgotten. The Japanese restock their waters with Aoriika (Sepioteuthis Zessoniana) and Kensakiika (Doryteuthis Izensaki), a very promising form of ocean ranching rarely, if ever, mentioned in aquaculture works (in Bardach et al., 1972, squid is slightly touched upon; but there is no mention of it in Korringa, 1976). The squid eggs are collected on the twigs of a shrub whose leaves do not easily drop off in water, harvested, and released in the waters to be restocked. The text section (pp. 119-157) deals with the classification and distribution of cephalopods - subclass Coleoidea - orders Sepioidea and Teuthoidea. Motoji Hamabe is mainly responsible for this part of the book. Brief, very well-balanced information on 31 species, including a map of each species showing distribution and main features, is given. It is good that the difficulties in preparing this book, as pointed out by Yoshikawa to the reviewer, seem, from the outside, fully resolved, and it is hoped that, again next year, Naomi Yoshikawa will get all the support needed to produce a new volume in this series, of comparable standard with its predecessors.
(IJmuiden,
S.J. DE GROOT The Netherlands)
REFERENCES Bardach, J.E., Ryther, J.H. and McLarney, W.O., 1972. Aquaculture. The Farming and Husbandry of Freshwater and Marine Organisms. Wiley Interscience, New York, N.Y. Korringa, P., 1976. Farming Marine Fishes and Shrimps. A Multidisciplinary Treatise. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, xii + 208 pp.
in Japan, Squid and Cuttlefish. Tetuo Tomiyama and Takashi Hibiya (Editors). Japan Marine Products Photo Materials Association, 6OI-5-17-1, Hyakunincho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan, 1978,161 pp.
Fisheries
The seventh volume of ‘Fisheries in Japan’ deals with the squid and cuttlefish fisheries. Since ancient times, the Japanese have utilized the large decapod resources around Japan: the 1975 statistics reveal that about 470,000 t of squid and cuttlefish yvere caught by the Japanese fleet, more than 70% of which was Surumeika (Todarodes pacificus). Naomi Yoshikawa is in fact again responsible for this very beautiful and valuable, mostly pictorial, book documentingthe decapod fishery of Japan. Each time it is remarkable to observe the high quality maintained in this series. The previous volumes were reviewed in Aquaculture, 10: 189-190 and 12: 368-369 (1977) - salmon and trout; prawns; seabream; tuna; skipjack and mackerel; eels. Yoshikawa’s photographs illustrate the general morphology, anatomy, eggs, mating and spawning of several Japanese cephalopods and their fishery - e.g. troll-hook, spear-, hand- and mechanized line-, hoop-net and gillnet fishing. Also, the various ways of processing squids are shown. As in the earlier published volumes the culinary aspects are not forgotten. The Japanese restock their waters with Aoriika (Sepioteuthis Zessoniana) and Kensakiika (Doryteuthis Izensaki), a very promising form of ocean ranching rarely, if ever, mentioned in aquaculture works (in Bardach et al., 1972, squid is slightly touched upon; but there is no mention of it in Korringa, 1976). The squid eggs are collected on the twigs of a shrub whose leaves do not easily drop off in water, harvested, and released in the waters to be restocked. The text section (pp. 119-157) deals with the classification and distribution of cephalopods - subclass Coleoidea - orders Sepioidea and Teuthoidea. Motoji Hamabe is mainly responsible for this part of the book. Brief, very well-balanced information on 31 species, including a map of each species showing distribution and main features, is given. It is good that the difficulties in preparing this book, as pointed out by Yoshikawa to the reviewer, seem, from the outside, fully resolved, and it is hoped that, again next year, Naomi Yoshikawa will get all the support needed to produce a new volume in this series, of comparable standard with its predecessors.
(IJmuiden,
S.J. DE GROOT The Netherlands)
REFERENCES Bardach, J.E., Ryther, J.H. and McLarney, W.O., 1972. Aquaculture. The Farming and Husbandry of Freshwater and Marine Organisms. Wiley Interscience, New York, N.Y. Korringa, P., 1976. Farming Marine Fishes and Shrimps. A Multidisciplinary Treatise. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, xii + 208 pp.