the aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

A small island, Hatakejima, belongs to the laboratory and serves as an experimental field site in southeastern Tanabe Bay.

The Shirahama Aquarium, open to the public, is located next to the research laboratories and operated by SMBL.

In 2003, Kyoto University combined SMBL with the Maizuru Fisheries Research Station, University Forests, and the Subtropical Plant Institute into an administrative unit named the Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC).

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