Summary In Kochi Prefectural Fishery Experiment Station, by operating a research ship,various observations such as water temperature, salinity, the net collection of spawn and fry and so on have been carried out periodically 8->11 times a year since 1970 at the same fixed points. The results have been summarized as the business report on the forecast of the state of ... fisheries and sea conditions every year by this Experiment Station.Moreover since 1986, by the BASIC program called POD, the data have been inputted in floppy disks, and National Research Institute of Fisheries Science made those into the data base through respective sea of section fishery experiment stations. In this Experiment Station, the data of the POD is processed, and made into the data base as the EXCEL file. Geographic Coverage