Information System of Fish Germplasm Resources in China

摘要

With abundant aquatic living resources, around 3500 fish species, China is a great fish producer in the world. However, due to the changes of global climate, damage of some ecosystems, soil erosion, water pollution, and over-fishing, China's aquatic biodiversity is facing a serious threat. So, how to conserve and adequate utilize fish resources is becoming a critical issue for China to ensure a sustainable development of fishery industry. Information System of Fish Germplasm Resources in China aims to collect and process fish germplasm information, with emphasis on the commercially important cultured species, and build up a number of databases in the effort of keeping all the data available so far for each aquatic living species or stock in China and bringing them into full play in the areas of gemplasm researches, resource conservation and fish production. The system consists primarily 9 databases: Basic information of species available in China waters, Database of commercially important species, Database of major cultured species, Database of endangered species, Database of introduced species, Environmental data for marine species, Environmental data for inland water, Statistics on commercially important species and Bibliography of fish germplasm. Accessible from the Internet by website http://www.cafs.ac.cn. the system provides such functions as data input, data modification, data output, search and data analysis.