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Part I Special Introductory Communication
An Example of Friendship and Cooperation Between France
and Japan: Oyster Farming in Sanriku Area (Tohoku Region,
Northern Japan) Before and After Tsunami – Restoration
and Technical Adaptation of Culture Systems ...................................
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Yasuyuki Koike
Part II Communications: Natural Disturbances
Impacts of the 2011 Mega- earthquake and Tsunami on Ezo
Abalone Haliotis discus hannai at Iwaisaki, Miyagi, Japan .............. 17
Hideki Takami and Hiroshi Nakaie
Short-Term Effects of the March 11, 2011, Tsunami
on Phytoplankton Assemblages in Ofunato
and Kesennuma Bays, Japan ............................................................... 23
Yutaka Okumura , Hiroshi Nakaie , Keisaku Kusaka ,
Tetsuroh Ishikawa , and Shinnosuke Kaga
Harmful Shell Borers, Polydora Species (Polychaeta:
Spionidae), from Commercially Important Mollusk
Shells in East Asia and Australia ......................................................... 31
Waka Sato-Okoshi , Hirokazu Abe , Kenji Okoshi ,
Wataru Teramoto , Jeremy Shaw , Byoung-Seol Koh ,
Yong- Hyun Kim , Jae-Sang Hong , and Jing-Yu Li
Impact of the 2011 Tsunami on Seagrass
and Seaweed Beds in Otsuchi Bay, Sanriku Coast, Japan ................ 43
Teruhisa Komatsu , Takayoshi Ohtaki , Shingo Sakamoto ,
Shuhei Sawayama , Yasuaki Hamana , Michiharu Shibata ,
Kohji Shibata , and Shuji Sasa
Impact of Repeating Massive Earthquakes
on Intertidal Mollusk Community in Japan ....................................... 55
Kenji Okoshi
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