2017 Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 165-169
New training ship “Oshoro Maru V”of School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University was completed in July 28, 2014. The purposes of building were as follows; (1)development of human resources playing active role in the fisheries science, (2)utilization for interchange of personnel and international collaborative research with domestic and foreign universities and research organizations, and (3)contribution for the reconstruction of the fisheries resources and industry devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Based on fundamental concept as quiet floating campus with little ship motions, the ship was designed and constructed as an ideal fishery training ship.