Ornamental fish industry refers to a new industry based on the production of ornamental aquatic animals and plants, which integrates ornamental fish breeding, ornamental fish feed, aquarium equipment, ornamental fish sales and ornamental fish breeding. Nowadays people pay more attention to the quality and taste of life. Raising ornamental fish has become one of the contents of people's healthy leisure life.
At present, the ornamental fish in Zhejiang Province is still in the primary stage of industrial management, showing the characteristics of low start, small scale and rapid growth. There are nearly 300 species of ornamental fish in the province, with an output of about 230 million fish, a breeding area of 6,000 mu and an output value of more than 200 million yuan. The average output value per mu reached 30,000 yuan, and the profit per mu reached 6.5438+0.5 million yuan.
In recent years, the goldfish breeding and sales in Zhejiang Province have changed steadily, and the production and sales of other ornamental fish species have increased at a rate of more than 20% every year. The sales volume of ornamental fish produced in Zhejiang Province accounts for 70% in the province, 20% outside the province, and exports 10%. The annual trade volume of the whole industry exceeds 6,543.8 billion yuan. In addition, there are about 20 thousand people directly engaged in the ornamental fish industry in the province. There are about 150 large ornamental fish breeding plants in the province, and more than 100 manufacturers are engaged in the production of related aquarium equipment and special feed.
According to the introduction of the Fisheries Department of Zhejiang Ocean and Fisheries Bureau, there are four key points in the development of ornamental fish industry in the future: first, cultivate superior species, and support scientific research institutes and key enterprises to develop new, exotic and special products with independent intellectual property rights in accordance with the cascade development strategy of popularizing popular species, popularizing famous products with characteristics and cultivating fine products; Second, increase infrastructure construction, combine modern facility fishery construction, increase infrastructure investment, introduce excellent varieties and modern advanced technology, improve the scientific and technological content of products, and strive to expand the scale of aquaculture by 10 times after five years of development; The third is to build a market platform, establish a comprehensive and international professional market, vigorously develop professional associations and cooperatives for ornamental fish, cultivate professional websites for ornamental fish, and encourage and support the construction of chain monopoly service stores for ornamental fish and aquarium directly linked with farmers; Fourth, actively support and encourage the development of aquarium equipment, special feed and other industries directly related to ornamental fish farming.