Abstract:
Groupers are one of the major mariculture species in Southern China coastal regions, including Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi and Hainan Provinces. In China, Groupers culture was initiated in Eighty and Ninety of last century, then, series of experiments and researches dealt with the theory and technology of grouper larval production and grow-out culture industry were carried out in recent years of this century, intended to improve induced breeding, larval rearing, nutrient requirement, disease defenses, germ plasm analyze and collection, culture techniques as well as culture modes, established the technical specification and management regime for larval production and grow-out culture, and realized the large-scale production of seed stock, thereafter, promoted the development of groupers culture industry reaching a considerable scope.
The major ideas for the sustained development of a more productive groupers aquaculture industry in China are highly effective utilize of resources, improve marine ecosystem, innovate culture techniques and culture modes, including:(1) optimize the larval rearing techniques, enhance the survival rate and quality of seed stock; (2) improve good variety with disease-resistance, high growth-rate and high quality; (3) produce formulated pellet with high efficiency and good quality; (4) establish new techniques for diseases detection and defense;(5) establish new cultural techniques and cultural modes with high-efficacy, low-carbon, and energy-save; (6) strengthen the basic research on grouper biology.