<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a continuous stage culture cage in which pockets used as shellfish-culturing chambers are disposed at multi-stages and whose pocket openings can easily be closed or opened. <;P>;SOLUTION: The continuous cage culture basket is fabricated by loosely disposing a back net 4 over the whole length of a culture cage, superposing front nets 6 cut in a pocket width on the back net, using upper edges as openings 7a, binding right and left ends with side strings 5 entwining both the nets with sealing strings 9 on the bottom side to form pockets 10, and passing opening sewing strings 11 for sealing the openings 7a of the pockets 10 through pockets at the stages in the vertical direction so that the back net 4 and the front nets 6 are twined with each other at places near to the openings. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT