The Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture in the East China Sea was officially approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in July, 2011. Focusing on the major issues related to the healthy and sustainable development of mariculture in the East China Sea, the researches in our laboratory involved in preserving germplasm resources and genetic improvement, development and application of novel aquaculture pattern, prevention and control of common aquatic diseases, and researches on nutrition and feed. Our efforts will solve the technical problems in the development of aquaculture and provide technical support for the sustainable development of the industry.
At present, there are 77 faculty members in the key laboratory, including 62 full and associate professors (14 doctoral supervisors). Sixty-seven out of faculty have doctoral degree. The total space of the key laboratory is about 6,000 m2, and the total value of the equipments is over 34 million yuan. Currently, 248 research projects are ongoing in the laboratory, and 45 out of which are nation-funded projects, and more than 100 out of which are provincial and municipal government-funded projects. The total annual funds we received on average were more than 10 million yuan. Prof. Kangsen Mai, also Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the director of the academic committee of the laboratory; Prof. Zhiyong Wang is the official director of the laboratory.
In recent five years, members of our laboratory have won five provincial and ministerial level awards, including a second prize of Provincial Natural Science Award, a third prize of Provincial Natural Science Award, two third prize of provincial science and technology progress award, and a second prize of China industry-research cooperation innovation award. In total, 378 research papers were published, including 205 papers published on journals listed in scientific citation index (SCI). In addition, our faculty has published two books/textbooks, received 55 invention patents and 3 utility model patents authorization, and two new breeds cultured in the laboratory were approved by the central goverment.
