The Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute (YSFRI) of CAFS – 黄海水产研究所 in Qingdao is China’s oldest multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to marine fisheries. Established in 1947 and relocated to Qingdao in 1949, the institute features 10 research divisions and 3 experimental bases. It operates 2 research vessels, Beidou and Huanghaixing, equipped with state-of-the-art research facilities. YSFRI employs 419 staff members, including 157 senior scientists.
The research divisions include:
- Fishery Resources and Ecosystem
- Mariculture Ecology and Technology
- Maricultural Organism Disease Control and Molecular Pathology
- Genetic Resources and Breeding
- Marine Products and Enzyme Engineering
- Fishery Environment and Bio-remediation
- Aquatic Products Quality and Safety
- Fish Culture and Engineering
- Food Engineering and Nutrition
- Aquatic Biotechnology and Genomics
YSFRI is equipped with several significant research platforms such as:
- Laboratory for Marine Fisheries Sciences and Food Production Processes
- National Center for Quality Supervision and Test of Aquatic Products
- Key Laboratory of Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries of MARA
- Key Laboratory of Testing and Evaluation for Aquatic Product Safety and Quality
- Center for Supervision & Test of Aquatic Germplasm and Fishery Environment Quality
- Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea Fishery Ecological Environment Monitoring of MARA
- China-Korea Joint Research Center for Fisheries Science
- OIE Reference Laboratories
More information: http://www.ysfri.ac.cn/ENGLISH.htm.
