Global status of aquaculture and aquaculture scientific journals is briefly described. Asia is the centre of fishing and aquaculture activities but most publishers, editors and editorial board members of fisheries and aquaculture journals are from Europe and/or USA. The contribution by Asian fisheries/aquaculture scientists to these journals remains low. Language barrier and requirement for monitory investment seem to inhibit Asian participation in this realm of scientific activity. The need for glob-alization of aquaculture scientific journals is emphasized. Selected strategies, which are adopted by the Western journals to improve their image and management, are indicated.

Characterization of a single pass of cDNA sequence, an expressed sequence tag (EST) has been a fast growing activity in fish genomics. Despite its relatively short history, fish EST databases (dbESTs) have already begun to play a significant role in bridging the gaps in our knowledge on the gene expression in fish genome. This review provides a brief description of the technology for establishing fish dbESTs, its current status, and implication of the ESTs to aquaculture and fisheries science with particular emphasis on the discovery of novel genes for transgenic application, the use of polymorphic EST markers in genetic linkage mapping and the evaluation of signal-responsive gene expression.

Effects of temperature (10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 2$0^{\circ}C$) and salinity (22.0, 24.5, 27.0, 29.5, 32.0 and 34.5 ppt) were studied on incubation period, hatching success, survival and growth of alevin and juvenile seabass, L. japonicus. Embryonic development was accelerated with increasing temperature but it was not influenced by salinity. Hatching success was the highest at 14$^{\circ}C$ and 34.5 ppt. Higher temperature also accelerated the development of mouth opening, absorption of yolk and oil globules, and alevin growth. Survival of the 5-day old Juvenile was accelerated in the following order : 14<16<18<20<12$^{\circ}C$. Rearing experiment of the juvenile for 30-day indicated the faster growth at 13, 20 and 27 ppt than at 34 ppt.

Total length and body weight of grey mullet were 6.4cm and 2.1g, respectively at the beginning of the experiment. After 60 days of rearing, body weight of the mullet(363%) was significantly higher in freshwater group than that (187%) in seawater group. However, the condition factor showed no significant differences between seawater (9.0%) and freshwater (8.8%) groups. Survival of the mullet was 98.3% and 64.3% in seawater and freshwater groups, respectively.

The larvae of the Korean bullhead, Pseudobagrus fulvidraco were satiated with the food uptake equivalent to 13% of its body weight and required 2.5, 11 and 15 hrs to digest 50, 90 and 100% of the consumed food. The juveniles were satiated with food equivalent to 0.65% of its body weight and required 9 and 19 hrs to digest 50 and 90% of the consumer. Apparently, daily food intake perceptibly decrease with the larvae grew to juvenile stage. Both larvae (8.3-14.0mm TL) and juvenile (41.1-65.7mm TL) tend to feed frequently than to get satiated once a day and appeared to be nocturnal feeders.

To study the effect of paddle wheel on water circulation, velocity components were measured in shrimp ponds both along the longitudinal direction from a single paddle wheel and at 25 grid points of two ponds, which have mean water depth of 1.2m and aspect ratio (length/width) 1.05 and 0.68, respectively. An analysis of factors related to water quality and circulation showed that I) a single paddle wheel has an effective distance of 33m for de-stratification, 16m for particulate suspension and 25m for removal of organic material, dispersion of DO and prevention of bed sediment disturbance and ii) with doubling the number of paddle wheels at the pond corners, the flow speed increased by 13% over the ponds, while it reduced by 8.5% around the pond centres. Contrary to expectation, increasing the number of paddle wheel did not generate strong circulation around the pond centre and improve water quality.

At 5$^{\circ}C$ incubation of the brooded eggs of the snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio lasted for 297 days; freshly hatched prezoea molted to become the first zoea in one hour. Length (from the tip of the rostral spines to the tip of the dorsal spines) of the first and second zoeae measured 4.8 and 6.4mm, respectively. Experimental rearing of the larvae at 5, 10, 15 and 2$0^{\circ}C$ indicated that the upper limit of thermal tolerance is 15$^{\circ}C$, as all the reared larvae succumbed at 2$0^{\circ}C$. Intermolt period from the first the first zoea to the second was 57, 32 and 23 days at 5, 10 and 15$^{\circ}C$, respectively and that of the second zoea was 52, 29 and 90 days, respectively. Largest number of larvae survived at 1$0^{\circ}C$.

In Paralichthys olivaceus and Nibea japonica, response to live air (5hr) or ship (25hr) transportation was assessed, by determining the levels of plasma cortisol, glucose, lactic acid and osmolality, as well as hematological parameters namely hematocrit (Ht), red blood cell (RBC) count, hemoglobin (Hb), corpuscular volume (MCV), corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) and corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). In the experimental series I, the olive flounder was subjected to stress or no stress for 1hr, prior to its air transportation for 5hr. The stress suffered by the flounder prior to air transportation resulted in significant reduction in Ht, but increases in MCH and MCHC. Air transportation led to increases in MCV and MCH in both the stressed and non stressed groups. In the non stressed group it led to significant increase in Ht but decrease in MCHC. In the stressed group, the air transportation led to significant increases in osmolality and plasma cortisol from 5 to 38.5ng/$m\ell$. Non stressed groups did not show significant differences in this before and after transportation. In the experiment II, the red blood cell (RBC) count ranged from 2.5$\times$10$^{6}$ /${mu}ell$ to 2.7$\times$10$^{6}$ /${mu}ell$ in the flounder and 1.9$\times$10$^{6}$ /${mu}ell$ to 2.1$\times$10$^{6}$ /${mu}ell$ in the croaker during the pre- and post-transportation, respectively. In the croaker the shipping led to significant increase in plasma cortisol from 26 to 35ng/$m\ell$ but decrease in glucose from 91.0 to 26.4mg/㎗. For glucose the reverse (39.0 to 51.0mg/㎗) was true for the flounder.