On June 18 at the Niigata city aquarium, 7000 fish died because of a mistake by an employee.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

A fisherman found a green turtle entangled in a rope off the coast of Shima, Mie Prefecture, and took it to an aquarium in July.

In July 2011, while aboard a fishing training ship 600 kilometers east of Tokyo, Muramatsu Kota, a student at Hokkaido University's Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, and other researchers saw a shoal of about 100 squid flying over the sea.

About 6,500 people, including MHI workers and citizens, gathered despite the rain to see the ship's launch.

By Dec. 5, 8 of the nearly 2,000 released tuna were caught in the waters between Wakayama and Shizuoka Prefectures.

The number of yellowtails landed at Toyama Prefecture's Himi Port in December and January totaled 130,774.

The 63-year-old marine adventurer returned to Japan on July 28, after successfully crossing the Pacific alone on a yacht.

The Takanami and Hamagiri took over their duties on Nov. 7 and have escorted 205 ships in 26 operations.

Aquamarine Fukushima, an aquarium in Fukushima Prefecture, recently announced that its research team had found a living young coelacanth for the first time ever.

In 1986, Toba Aquarium and the Philippine government carried out a joint survey of dugongs in the seas around the Philippines and found a baby dugong that was separated from her mother.

In the early morning of Oct. 7, a human-powered aircraft took off from Imizu, Toyama Prefecture.

Aqua Toto Gifu, Japan's largest freshwater aquarium, has opened in Kawashima Town, Gifu Prefecture.

In April, a crocodile, 1.2 meters in length, was found in a canal in Kobe and was taken to the police station.

At around 2 a.m. on Sept. 25, 21 fishing boats set off from the Matsukawaura fishing port in Soma.

On Jan. 19, the Lake Biwa Museum in Shiga Prefecture announced that a yellow biwako-onamazu was caught in Lake Biwa.

The 38-year-old adventurer from Kagoshima Prefecture set sail from Kagoshima on July 27.

On Jan. 20, a giant squid was caught alive in a dragnet off the coast of Tottori Prefecture.

Two staff members were sent to study at an aquarium in Russia that has successfully bred belugas.

On June 18, Japan and China finally reached an agreement to salvage an unidentified sunken ship in China's exclusive economic zone.

In July 2004, the first beluga born in Japan was also born at the Nagoya aquarium.

Funado Beach in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, opened to bathers on July 24.

An LNG carrier chartered by Gazprom Group left northern Norway on Nov. 7 and arrived in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 5.

On Dec. 15, Waddle visited Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture and he placed flowers at a memorial for the victims.

Along with a fishhook found in East Timor in 2011, the Okinawa hook is thought to be the oldest ever discovered.

On Oct. 22, pieces of coral were transplanted about 200 meters off the coast of the town.

In 2009, over 10 tons of flying fish and mackerel scad from Hachijo Island were used in school lunches in Tokyo's urban areas.

On Oct. 10, a Japanese macaque was caught in a house in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Every year on March 10, Ebina visited a monument in Tokyo to mourn the air-raid victims.

On May 9, "Donchicchi aji," a new brand-name horse mackerel, was shipped from the Hamada fishing port in Shimane Prefecture to Kanto and other areas for the first time.

The Ehime Maru, a training ship of Uwajima Fisheries High School, was hit and sunk by the U.S.S. Greeneville, a U.S. Navy submarine, in February of last year.

The giant squid was caught about 30 kilometers offshore at a depth of approximately 240 meters.