Kenji Asano
                
                Fisheries Research Agency
                2-12-4, Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku
                Yokohama, Kanagawa
                Japan 236-8648
                E-mail: anchovy@affrc.go.jp
            
            
                Yoshiro Watanabe
                Living Marine Resources
                Ocean Research Inst., University of Tokyo
                1-15-1 Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo
                Japan 164-8639
                E-mail: ywatanab@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
            
            
            
                Yutaka Watanuki
                
                Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences
                Hokkaido University
                Minato-cho 3-1-1
                Hakodate, Hokkaido
                Japan 060-8589
                E-mail: ywata@fish.hokudai.ac.jp
            
            
            
                Qi-Sheng Tang
                
                Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS
                106 Nanjing Road
                Qingdao, Shandong
                People's Republic of China 266071
                E-mail: ysfri@public.qd.sd.cn
            
            
            
                Rong Wang
                
                Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology & Environmental Science
                Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
                7 Nanhai Road
                Qingdao, Shandong
                People's Republic of China 266071
                E-mail: wangrong@ms.qdio.ac.cn
            
            
                Jin-Yeong Kim
                
                Coastal & Offshore Fisheries Resources Division
                National Fisheries Research & Development Institute (NFRDI)
                #3470, Anpo-ri, Hwayang-Myeon
                Yeosu, Chollanam-do
                Republic of Korea 556-820
                E-mail: jiykim@nfrdi.re.kr
            
            
            
                Chang-Ik Zhang
                
                Dept of Marine Production Management
                Pukyong National University
                599-1 Daeyeon 3-dong, Nam-gu
                Busan
                Republic of Korea 608-737
                E-mail: cizhang@pknu.ac.kr
            
            
                Elena P. Dulepova
                
                Laboratory of Applied Bioceonology
                Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (TINRO)
                4 Shevchenko Alley
                Vladivostok
                Russia 690950
                E-mail: dep@tinro.ru
            
            
            
                Natalia V. Klovach
                
                Laboratory of Far Eastern Biological Resources
                Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (VNIRO)
                17 Verkhnyaya Krasnoselskaya
                Moscow
                Russia 107140
                E-mail: dvres@vniro.ru
            
            
            
                George L. Hunt, Jr.
                
                Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
                University of California, Irvine
                321 Steinhaus Hall
                Irvine, CA
                U.S.A. 92697-2525
                E-mail: glhunt@uci.edu
            
            
            
                Brenda L. Norcross
                
                School of Fisheries & Ocean Sci.
                University of Alaska Fairbanks
                P.O. Box 757220
                Fairbanks, AK
                U.S.A. 99775-7220
                E-mail: norcross@ims.uaf.edu
            
            
                William T. Peterson
   
                NOAA-Fisheries
                Hatfield Marine Science Senter
                2030 S. Marine Science Dr.
                Newport, OR
                U.S.A. 97365
                E-mail: Bill.Peterson@noaa.gov