From Nov. 12 to Nov. 13, the 10th World Chinese Symposium on Crustacean Aquaculture was grandly held in Shanghai Ocean University. The symposium was sponsored by “Chinese Society of Oceanology and Limnology/the Branch of Carcinology of China Zoological Society”, and co-organized by Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai Fishery Summit Discipline, International Combined Research Center for Marine Bioscience, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Aquatic Animal Genetics and Breeding (ZF1206) and other units. Themed by “ecology, health and quality”, the symposium gathered more than 700 participants, including domestic well-known scholars and graduate students from Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as foreign experts and entrepreneur representatives. It also invited Gui Jianfang, Xiang Jianhai, He Jian’guo, Li Jian, Wang Guizhong, Fu Hongtuo and Cheng Yongxu from domestic as well as Chen Xiunan, Luo Zhufang, Dean Jerry, Gilbert Van Stappen and Zeng Zhaoshu from abroad to give their keynote speeches.

The 10th World Chinese Symposium on Crustacean Aquaculture being grandly held in Shanghai Ocean University

First launched in 1998, the World Chinese Symposium on Crustacean Aquaculture has been successfully held for ten times by 2016. From about 200 participants in 1998 to about 700 in 2016, the scale of the symposium has been continuously expanding, covering participants from both the academic circle and the industrial circle. The symposium of this year is so far the international academic symposium with the highest grade and widest coverage held in China in the crustacean aquaculture field. The holding of the symposium also fully testifies to the continuously upward developmental trend of our river crab industry and the increasingly closer attention and more frequent participation from both the academic circle and the industrial circle, which no doubt will exert an important impact on further pushing forward the industry-university-research integration and development of our crustacean aquaculture field and on promoting the improvement of industrial technology.

SHOU President Professor Cheng Yudong presenting his speech

Also present at the symposium to extend their congratulations were Wang Xueguang, Director of the Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture; Li Kexin, Deputy Chief of National Fishery Technical Extension Center (NFTEC); Shi Qianghua, member of the standing committee of Shanghai Association for Science & Technology, and so forth. Cheng Yudong, SHOU President presented a speech, and Li Jiale, SHOU Vice President, directed the opening ceremony.

Academician Gui Jianfang presenting his keynote speech, “From Fish Cultivation in Rice Fields to Comprehensive Cultivation in Rice Fields- New Paradigm of the Chinese Green Ecological Cultivation”

The symposium received close attention from the mainstream media of the fishery field, and was live-broadcast by www.fishfirst.cn, www.tensfish.com, etc; the hotspot contents and keynote speeches of this symposium were also released via Fisheries Advance Magazine, Current Fisheries, Scientific Fish Farming and other network platforms.

Li Kexin, Deputy Chief of National Fishery Technical Extension Center (NFTEC), presenting his speech

The symposium was sponsored by “Chinese Society of Oceanology and Limnology/the Branch of Carcinology of China Zoological Society”, and co-organized by Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai Fishery Summit Discipline, International Combined Research Center for Marine Bioscience, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Aquatic Animal Genetics and Breeding (ZF1206) and other units. It was themed by “ecology, health and quality”.

Chinese and foreign experts presenting keynote speeches at the symposium

Some experts present at the symposium

Heated discussions at the event