Ontogenetic development of pompano Trachinotus ovatus

Prof. Zhenhua Ma graduated from Flinders University (Australia) with PhD in Aquaculture. He used to work for Flinders University and Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore). Currently, he is the manager of the Tropical Aquaculture Research and Development Center of South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, and Vice Director of Sanya Tropical Fisheries Research Institute. Academic experiences including: postgraduate supervisor of Shanghai Ocean University and Tianjin Agricultural College; Member of the 3rd Hainan original seed breeding committee; Member of the aquatic animal behaviour committee of Chinese Fishery Science Association; Member of aquaculture committee in Chinese academy of fishery sciences; Deputy secretary general of China coral conservation alliance; Chief editor of Insights in Aquaculture and Biotechnology, editorial board member of the Journal of Fisheries and Fisheries Development. By 2020, Prof. Zhenhua Ma has published 5 academicmonographs, participated in the compilation of 2 English academic monographs, and published 118 academic papers, with a total of more than 300 citations.

Prof. Gang Yu graduated from Ocean University of China with PhD in Food Science. He has a solid theoretical foundation of aquaculture and aquatic product processing, familiar with the interdisciplinary knowledge related to fishery, familiar with the domestic and foreign scientific and technological development trends of fishery, grasp the latest theories and methods of modern scientific and technological management, and grasp the development trends of domestic and foreign fishery industry. Up to present, he has published 43 papers, and obtained 3 authorized patents.



Prof. Jianguang Qin obtained a Bachelor at Dalian Fisheries College, China in 1982, Masters at the University of Oklahoma, USA in 1988, and PhD at Ohio State University, USA in 1994. After a 3-year postdoc at the University of Hawaii, he joined Flinders University, Australia in 1997. He currently is a professor and aquaculture coordinator. He is the pioneer of the aquaculture program at Flinders and has led the aquaculture research at Flinders to the world class in the discipline of Fishery Science. He has published 2 books, 13 book chapters, 350+ SCI journal papers. Papers have been cited over 9500 times with h-index of 49. Research disciplines include ecology, nutrition, physiology, behavior, biotechnology, and toxicology. Research organisms include bacteria, algae, zooplankton, fish, molluscs and crustaceans. As a major research member, he received the recognition of Best Research and Project Award 1992 (American Fisheries Society), the 50 Best Inventions of 2009 in the World for The Tank-Bred Tuna (Time Magazine), CRC Association’s Award for Excellence in Innovation 2010, and South Australian Excellence Research Awards 2010. He is an Editor-in-Chief of
Aquaculture
, Academic Editor of
Aquaculture Nutrition
, Associate Editor of
Aquaculture and Fisheries
, and Editorial Board Member of
Aquaculture Research.