Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences

Coordinates: 39°53′43″N 116°15′51″E / 39.89528°N 116.26417°E / 39.89528; 116.26417 (Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences)
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Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
Staff
1590 scientists[1]
Websitewww.cafs.ac.cn/english/

The Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS) (

fisheries.[1]

CAFS sponsors the award-winning international academic periodical Journal of Fishery Sciences of China.[2] It has completed over 1,000 research projects, including a study on the aquaculture of the fleshy prawn Peneaus chinensis and the control of haemorrhage disease in grass carp, which won the National Scientific and Technological Progress First Prize.[1] The institute has contributed significantly to China's aquaculture development.[1]

Activities

Aquaculture has been pursued in China for at least 2,400 years. A tract by Fan Li in the fifth century BC details many of the ways carp were raised in ponds.[3] The major carp species used traditionally in Chinese aquaculture are the black, grass, silver and bighead carp. In the 1950s, the Pearl River Fishery Research Institute of CAFS made a technological breakthrough in the induced breeding of these carps, which has resulted in a rapid expansion of freshwater aquaculture in China.[4]

In the late 1990s, CAFS scientists developed a new variant of the

feed conversion rate. Over 50% of the total aquaculture production of carp in China has now converted to Jian carp.[4][5]

The

Yangtze River at Yichang. However, in 2007, 14 young sturgeon were surveyed near the mouth of Yangtze compared with 600 the year before, causing concern that the battle was being lost in the crowded and polluted Yangtze River.[9]

The major traditional aquaculture carp of China

Structure

CAFS has its headquarters in Beijing. Across China, it operates nine fisheries research institutes and four fisheries resources enhancement stations.[10]

Satellite institutions[10]
Sea areas Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute
Qingdao, Shandong
province
East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute Shanghai city
South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute Guangzhou, Guangdong province
Inland areas Helongjiang Fisheries Research Institute Harbin, Helongjiang province
Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute Jingzhou, Hubei province[11]
Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute Guangzhou, Guangdong province
Freshwater Fisheries Research Center Wuxi, Jiangsu province
Engineering Fishery Machinery and Instrument Research Institute Shanghai city
Fishery Engineering Research Institute Wuxi Jiangsu province
Marine resource
enhancement
Qinhuangdao, Hebei province
Changdao, Shandong province
Yinkou, Liaoning province
Changyi, Shandong province

Some associated publications

  • Chen D, Duan X, Liu S and Shi W (2003) Status and Management of Fishery Resources of the Yangtze River In: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries. FAO Corporate Document Repository.
  • Yulin J (1996) A Review of Traditional and Innovative Aquaculture Health Management in the People's Republic of China In: Health management in Asian aquaculture, FAO Corporate Document Repository. .

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Chinese Academy of Fishery Science (CAFS) Archived 2011-06-18 at the Wayback Machine NOAA. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  2. ^ Journal Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine CAFS. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  3. ^ National Aquaculture Sector Overview: China FAO, Rome. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  4. ^ a b CAFS research achievement Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine CAFS. Accessed 26 July 2011.
  5. .
  6. ^ "Living Fossil" Fish Making Last Stand in China National Geographic, 15 August 2011.
  7. ^ "Chinese sturgeon". Chinese Ministry of Culture. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  8. ^ Chinese Sturgeon Set Free China Daily, 29 April 2005.
  9. ^ Scientists sound alarm as Chinese sturgeon battle for survival FIS, 24 July 2007.
  10. ^ a b About us Archived 2011-08-16 at the Wayback Machine Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  11. ^ Yangtze River Fishery Research Institute

External links

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