Lin Shaowen, born in Zhangzhou, Fujian in 1907, is a biologist, oceanographer, and one of the founders of Chinese fisheries.

From 1924 to 1930, he studied at the Department of Biology and Research Institute of Yanjing University in Peking and received a master's degree in biology.

Soon after, he went to study at Cornell University in the United States and received a doctorate in limnology in 1933. In 1935, Lin Shaowen was invited by President Zhao Taiqi to come to Qingdao with his family to serve as professor and director of the Department of Biology at Shandong University.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lin Shaowen prepared to establish the Central Fisheries Research Institute in Shanghai and served as the first director.

Since 1949, Lin Shaowen has been a technical expert of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and a fishery breeding expert in Asia and the Far East for 23 years. He is the first scientist in the world to successfully cultivate freshwater prawns (Prunus Roschii) artificially.

In 1974, the World Aquaculture Society awarded him the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award.

Died of illness in the United States on July 19, 1990.

Lin Shaowen is a world-recognized talented scientist and one of the founders of aquaculture in my country.

He spent his whole life on the front lines of teaching, scientific research and production.

In 1933, after Lin Shaowen received a doctorate in limnology from Cornell University in the United States, he returned to Xiamen University to teach. Later, at the invitation of President Zhao Taiqi, his family came to Qingdao to serve as professor and director of the Department of Biology at Shandong University.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lin Shaowen prepared to establish the Central Fisheries Research Institute in Shanghai and served as the first director. Under his leadership, it took just over a year to build a complete supporting facility on the grassland beside the Huangpu River.

aquatic research city.

This is the first aquatic research institution in the history of our country, laying the foundation for the development of aquatic science in New China.

After the establishment of the Fisheries Research Institute, research on scientific research topics was quickly carried out one after another. Among them, under his organizational leadership, together with the Shanghai Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, the first scientific research project in Chinese history was carried out. The survey of marine fishery resources is a survey of great significance and far-reaching influence. It not only basically grasps the types and quantities of fish in the East my country Sea, but also understands the water temperature, food and other conditions for fish growth. More importantly, it provides a basis for my country's future large-scale development. We have accumulated rich experience in large-scale offshore surveys.

Before the liberation of Shanghai, they made two voyages, one of which conducted a detailed investigation of the Zhoushan fisheries.

Lin Fushen, an associate researcher at the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute who participated in the investigation of Zhoushan fisheries that year: "I mainly understood the winter fisheries and hairtail fish in Zhoushan fisheries, and determined the areas where hairtails are concentrated in Zhoushan fisheries in winter, and their quantity distribution. Second, to form a fishing flood, there is

The conditions are food conditions, as well as ocean currents and temperatures, which are suitable for its activities in the Zhoushan fishery area. The physical environment and biological environment illustrate the inevitability of the hairtail fishing flood in the Zhoushan fishery." Lin Shaowen has been in charge since June 1949.

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) fishery technical expert and fishery breeding expert in Asia and the Far East, with 23 years of experience.

During this period, he successfully solved the artificial breeding and breeding technology of Macrobrachium rosenbergii for the first time, and made significant contributions to the development of freshwater aquaculture and personnel training in the Far East. He was recognized as the world authority on warm-water fish breeding and was known as the "freshwater shrimp".

"Father of Breeding".

Macrobrachium rosenbergii, also known as Malaysian prawn, is native to Southeast Asia such as India and Thailand. It is a famous freshwater shrimp.

Lin Fushen, an associate researcher at the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, said that the success of artificial breeding of this kind of shrimp has greatly improved the lives of fishermen in some Southeast Asian countries. "When he inspected Southeast Asia, he proposed that to improve the lives of fishermen, the aquaculture industry must be developed. He inspected

After visiting six or seven countries in Southeast Asia, he was optimistic that Macrobrachium rosenbergii had great development prospects. He devoted himself to research for two or three years on the artificial breeding and breeding of Macrobrachium rosenbergii, from cultivation to cultivation.

It was his plan that was promoted in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam under the name of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and it quickly reached its peak in 1955 and 1956.

The country's fishermen have benefited greatly, and their economic life has improved. "Lin Shaowen is a scientist who values ??both scientific research and the promotion of scientific research results. He believes that the purpose of all scientific research activities in the aquatic products field he studies is to transform the results.

into real products, all for the benefit of the people.

During his stay in Thailand, in addition to successfully realizing the artificial cultivation of freshwater shrimp, he also devoted himself to researching fish farming methods, improving the production and quality of fish farming, and transplanting tilapia from Africa to Asia for the first time.

Deng Jingyao, former director of the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, "His main achievement was to reform the fish farming methods in Thailand at that time and implement a revolution in fish farming methods. He traveled throughout urban and rural areas to promote his new methods, and achieved a lot

Great results. His farming methods influenced the United States and had a very important impact on American fish farming. In 1973, Lin Shaowen left FAO.

, settled in the United States after retirement and served as a visiting professor at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington, and an honorary professor at the School of Oceanography and Atmosphere, University of Miami, USA.

Over the past few decades, Lin Shaowen has published more than 40 research papers and survey reports in domestic and foreign publications, published two monographs, and was twice invited to speak at international conferences such as the "Marine Food and Drugs" seminar and the "FAO Aquaculture Technology Conference"

On the article, I wrote an article introducing the freshwater shrimp farming situation in Asia and around the world.