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.

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.

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.