Therefore, the establishment and development of modern techniques for the proliferation and culture of marine fishes is one of the important research areas in the marine biotechnology.

At present, marine biotechnology mainly includes marine animal and plant breeding biotechnology, marine natural metabolites biotechnology and marine environment biotechnology.

In this paper, the status and recent advances in the frontier study field of marine biotechnology are presented on the basis of the informations on recent study and development of international marine biotechnology, the developmental trend in this field is envisaged, and the measures which should be taken by China are also discussed.